Jordan Running is an experienced account manager and entrepreneur with 15 years blending hands-on product building, sales, and branding across Colorado. As co-founder of COCo., Jordan built a values-driven consumer brand focused on natural ingredients, local sourcing, and ethical profitability while managing every facet of a growing small business. He also runs accounts and growth efforts at White Wing Quality Cleaning, bringing practical customer-facing skills and operational discipline to service delivery. Technically fluent as a front-end and full-stack developer, Jordan has contributed backend and DevOps improvements to the widely used Chef Infra project, enhancing usability and error reporting for infrastructure-as-code workflows. Based in Manitou Springs, he pairs community-centered business goals with a pragmatic engineering mindset, able to move between code, operations, and customer strategy. Notably, his profile reflects rare dual fluency: shipping open-source infrastructure fixes while running a mission-driven consumer brand.
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the Chef Infra project by enhancing the `knife node edit` functionality, adding features for handling client keys within ChefFS, and implementing improvements to the error reporting system. The user's contributions also involved adding shorthand options for log locations and enhancing the daemonization feature of the Chef client. These changes improved the usability and functionality of the configuration management platform.
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