Jordan Rome
Engineer At Facebook at Meta
Town of Putnam Valley, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Rome is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and more than 20 years of hands-on coding, currently building backend systems at Facebook/Meta. He blends front-end craftsmanship from roles at Spotify and zeebox with deep systems work—contributing to Facebook’s widely used open-source C++ library folly, where he improved ELF handling and memory management in the experimental symbolizer. Comfortable across web, UI, and low-level code, he pairs a creative-writing MFA with a literature BA, bringing clear communication and product sensibility to technical problems. Based in Putnam Valley, NY, he has a track record of shipping reliable software at scale and quietly improving foundational tooling that other engineers depend on.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Literature 2003, B.A, Literature 2003 at University of California Santa Barbara College ofM.F.A, Creative Writing, M.F.A, Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
system-programming10
memory-management9
linux8
performance-optimization8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/folly
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the `folly` library, focusing on the `experimental/symbolizer` component. Their work involved adding and modifying methods within the `Elf` class to improve its functionality. Contributions include adding methods to call `posix_fadvise` for memory management and refactoring code to return pointers from functions, likely to address memory safety issues. These changes appear to aim at improving the performance and reliability of the library in handling ELF files.
facebookcppc-library
jordalgo/scx
Dec 2023 - May 2024
sched_ext schedulers and tools
Contributions:75 pushes, 34 branches in 5 months
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