Jordan West
Engineering Manager at Netflix
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan West is an engineering manager and seasoned distributed-systems engineer with 15 years of experience building and operating large-scale data platforms, now leading teams at Netflix from Reno, NV. He moved up from hands-on roles—Senior Engineer at Basho and Data Infrastructure Engineer at Apple—to senior technical leadership as a Staff Software Engineer and now Engineering Manager at Netflix, focusing on online data stores. Jordan is an active open-source committer (Apache) with notable contributions to Riak core and Riak KV, improving cluster metadata, ring resizing, and handoff progress tracking in widely used distributed systems. He has deep back-end expertise in REST frameworks and HTTP APIs from work on Webmachine and real-world production services. Known for blending practical engineering with architecture-level thinking, he often surfaces subtle operational improvements (like logical deletion and transfer scheduling) that reduce long-term maintenance costs. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex distributed-systems problems into reliable, production-ready solutions.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (16)
riak10
data-storage10
api-rest10
rest-api10
distributed-systems10
key-value-store10
erlang10
webmachine10
api-design10
restful-api10
concurrency9
system-design9
http-api9
leveldb9
version-control9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
basho/riak_core
Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
Distributed systems infrastructure used by Riak.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the Riak Core distributed systems infrastructure, focusing on improving cluster metadata management. They implemented logical deletion of ring metadata and added features for resizing rings, including scheduling and re-ordering transfers. The user's work involved core modifications to support bucket types and included several enhancements and fixes for the metadata and handoff manager components.
distributed-systemsriak
webmachine/webmachine
Nov 2012 - Nov 2014
A REST-based system for building web applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the webmachine library. Their work involved refactoring and extending the request rewriting functionality, allowing for header manipulation in addition to path rewriting. They also improved the handling of media range parameters in content types, fixing a crash and formatting issues. Furthermore, the user updated the webmachine_request.erl file and version number.
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