Summary
Jordan Plahn is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused platforms, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Sensible Weather. He progressed from SDE roles at Amazon to product and management positions, blending hands-on technical depth with product-minded leadership across companies like Sourcegraph, Hightouch, and Sensible Weather. Jordan has led core infrastructure efforts such as repo management and IAM at Sourcegraph and the core syncing engine at Hightouch, demonstrating a knack for operationalizing developer workflows. He brings a founder’s perspective from co-founding Chatter, coupling startup grit with enterprise rigor. Based in Richmond, Virginia, he holds a multidisciplinary engineering background from Virginia Tech spanning engineering science, computer science, and mathematics. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who prefers shipping resilient systems over chasing architectural purity.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Engineering Science and Mechanics; Computer Science; Mathematics, BS Engineering Science and Mechanics; Computer Science; Mathematics at Virginia Tech
International School of Aberdeen
English, Spanish