Jordan Terrell
Principal Engineer at Target
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolJordan Terrell is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and simplifying large-scale distributed systems, currently leading architecture efforts at Target. He excels at collapsing complex microservice landscapes into high-performance, maintainable services—once reducing infrastructure by 90% and improving P99 latency to 94ms for an API serving hundreds of millions of daily requests. Comfortable coding from C and C++ to Kotlin, Rust and Go, he pairs deep systems knowledge (including hands-on RocksDB tuning and an active rust-rocksdb contribution) with pragmatic DevOps practices to drive cost savings and reliability. A habitual mentor and tool-builder, Jordan has a track record of shrinking CI times, automating cloud cleanup to save six-figure annual costs, and introducing reproducible infrastructure patterns across teams.
19 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Computer Sciences, Certificate Computer Sciences at Dakota County TechnicalCertificate Computer Sciences, Certificate Computer Sciences at Red Wing Technical
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Github Skills (9)
binding10
rocksdb10
databases10
rust10
database10
bind10
build-system9
api-design8
cicd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rust-rocksdb/rust-rocksdb
Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
rust wrapper for rocksdb
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 4 reviews, 106 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the `rust-rocksdb` project, primarily focusing on implementing and improving the Rust wrapper for the RocksDB database. They added Send marker traits to Options and made changes to the build process and compression support. The user also worked on implementing merge operators and addressing issues related to Windows builds and CI configurations.
rocksdbrustrust-bindingsdatabase
iSynaptic/base-ubuntu-env
Sep 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 release, 102 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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