Jordan Simpson
Lead Software Engineer at First Orion
North Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Simpson is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack, enterprise-grade web applications, currently driving backend architecture and delivery at First Orion. He specializes in Java and Spring Boot microservices, AWS-based deployments (Docker, ECR, ECS/Lambda) and polyglot data stores including Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB and Cassandra/ScyllaDB, and enforces rigorous automated testing with a personal >=80% coverage rule. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs front-end knowledge (React, jQuery, Thymeleaf) with deep backend and cloud expertise to deliver reliable APIs and integrations such as payment processing and event-driven vendor notification systems. An active contributor to Baeldung’s well-known tutorials (eugenp/tutorials), he regularly authors Spring and Java examples that blend practical patterns with clear explanations. Outside of engineering he composes and arranges music, a creative outlet that informs his collaborative, detail-oriented approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Harding University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javas10
thymeleaf10
java10
spring-boot10
unit-testing9
junit8
spring8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eugenp/tutorials
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
Getting Started with Spring Boot 3:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 13 PRs, 2 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the `eugenp/tutorials` repository by adding and modifying Java code examples, specifically focusing on Spring Boot 3 and Thymeleaf. Their contributions included implementing a Spring controller to serve Thymeleaf HTML pages and providing code examples demonstrating how to use conditional CSS classes within Thymeleaf. Additionally, the user worked on code examples related to core Java concepts such as String to Boolean conversions and checking class existence. Furthermore, the user made some improvements to the code by refactoring and merging branches.
spring-bootspring-security-oauthsecurityauthenticationsecurity-oauth
j0rdanit0/el-puente
Feb 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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