Summary
Jordan Rickman is a Technical Lead in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building cloud-native, full‑stack systems and guiding teams through architectural transitions. He has led adoption of microservices, serverless storage, caching and sharding strategies that produced order-of-magnitude throughput gains, and built reusable full‑stack frameworks for multi‑product authorization and authentication. Jordan blends hands‑on backend work (Python, NodeJS, DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis) with infrastructure-as-code and cloud automation (Terraform, AWS CDK, Kubernetes), and has a track record of shipping production serverless APIs and CI/CD pipelines. He pairs academic depth—graduate work in interactive telecommunications and a year in a PhD software engineering program—with practical product focus, often driving cultural and technical change through coaching and tooling. An engineer who thinks like an architect, he’s as comfortable prototyping cross‑team frontend tooling as he is optimizing large‑scale data flows.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Rollins College
Valdosta State University
Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications, Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications at New York University
Japanese Language and Literature, Japanese Language and Literature at Kansai Gaidai University
English, Japanese