Jordan Watkins
Senior Front-End Engineer III at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Watkins is a Senior Front-End Engineer with 12+ years crafting user-focused web experiences across Amazon and AWS, from payments and photos to interactive gaming features. He blends deep expertise in core web technologies with a history of shipping UI enhancements and tooling—such as front-end contributions and a CLI exporter for the popular Piskel pixel-art editor. A habitual learner and mentor, Jordan sustains his craft by building small web games for jams and his kids, demonstrating a playful curiosity that informs his production work. Based in Renton, Washington, he pairs practical hands-on coding with cross-team collaboration and international product launches, and often surfaces usability improvements that bridge developer tools and end-user needs.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DSH 2 - Zeugnis German, DSH 2 - Zeugnis German at University of MünsterAssociate of Applied Science Web Development, Associate of Applied Science Web Development at Portland Community College
English, German
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
pixel-art10
canvas10
cli9
html9
css9
spritesheet8
gif8
webpack-dev-server6
windows-console6
webpack6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
piskelapp/piskel
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A simple web-based tool for Spriting and Pixel art.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Piskel app, focusing on UI enhancements and feature additions. They implemented a drawing zoom feature, added an inline image option for PixiJS Movie export, and modified the UI layout. Furthermore, the user developed a command-line interface for exporting from `.piskel` files. This work involved modifying existing JavaScript code, and creating new files for improved functionality and user experience.
spritesheetartcanvasgifjavascript
jordanjwatkins/mondrian-generator
Feb 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
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