Summary
Jordan Wilberding is a seasoned software engineering leader with 15 years of experience focused on public cloud transitions, distributed systems, and secure operational foundations. As Director of Public Cloud Transition at Salesforce, he leads teams building foundational services for operating securely and at scale, drawing on deep expertise in CI/CD, containerization, immutable infrastructure, and declarative automation. His background spans research in information retrieval and data mining to hands-on roles in Erlang-driven real-time systems and IoT processing, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and production engineering. Jordan runs his own Erlang consulting practice and has a history of building scalable conversation-powered search and control systems, showing a persistent interest in low-latency, resilient architectures. Based in the Sioux City region, he pairs PhD-level research experience with practical leadership that prioritizes auditable, secure cloud operations.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Georgetown University
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology