Jordan Rushing
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability And Telemetry Platform
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Rushing is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience building and operating scalable, secure cloud systems, now focused on observability and telemetry at NVIDIA. He brings deep hands-on expertise across languages (Go, Rust, Python, Ruby, C, JavaScript) and distributed Linux/Kubernetes environments, having previously shaped reliability at Grafana Labs and AWS. Jordan is an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Grafana Loki, where he improved performance, recovery middleware, and CI/CD validation—work that directly impacts log-scale observability pipelines. His background spans low-level networking at Subspace to global DNS and edge services at AWS, giving him a rare blend of network data-plane and platform observability experience. Based in Dallas, he combines engineering rigor with a pragmatic focus on operational resilience and resource-efficient telemetry.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Candidate for B.S, Incomplete, Computer Science, Candidate for B.S, Incomplete, Computer Science at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (13)
lokijs10
logging10
go10
prometheus10
grafana10
cloki10
cicd9
devops9
cloud-native9
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/loki
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:155 reviews, 39 commits, 110 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the Grafana Loki project by implementing and improving the system's performance and reliability. They added recovery middleware and enhanced the codebase with features such as a overrides-exporter module for better resource management. The user also focused on improving the system's functionality by introducing new chunk key, and improving the performance of the existing features. The user has also contributed to improve the CI/CD pipeline with the introduction of the example config validation step.
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JordanRushing/loki
Aug 2021 - Oct 2025
Like Prometheus, but for logs.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 246 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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