Jordan Williams
Senior Principal Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Williams is a Senior Principal Engineer based in New York with over a decade of experience designing and shipping large-scale systems across Amazon and startups like PlanetScale. He has led high-throughput, consumer-facing services and front-end frameworks at Amazon, launched major search and mobile features, and more recently applied computer vision and sustainability engineering within AWS and Amazon Robotics. A pragmatic polyglot, Jordan contributes to influential open-source projects such as Conan (C/C++ package management) and Thonny (Python IDE), where his work spans build-system reliability, cross-compilation fixes, and OS-level integrations. He combines deep systems and tooling expertise with product-minded execution, routinely resolving subtle build and compiler issues that improve developer experience. Motivated by leaving the world a little better, he blends hands-on coding with architectural leadership to move complex platforms from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science History, BS Computer Science History at Belmont University
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Github Skills (32)
c-language10
mson10
python10
package-management10
conan10
ide10
linux10
cmake10
flatpak10
package-manager-tool10
mesonbuild10
package-manager10
cprogramming-language10
crossbuild9
autotools9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3865 reviews, 105 commits, 381 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed to the Conan package recipes within the conan-center-index repository. Their work primarily involved modifying and updating existing recipes, adding new versions, and adapting configurations for various C++ libraries, particularly those related to unit testing, string formatting, and other core libraries. The user corrected build and install issues related to both build systems (e.g., Meson, CMake) and compiler toolchains, and made improvements to cross-compilation. They also focused on ensuring that various packages were built with the correct dependencies and system libraries.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
conan-io/conan
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 3 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily contributed to the Conan package manager, focusing on bug fixes and enhancements related to build system integration. They fixed issues within the CMakeToolchain generator, addressing compiler checks to prevent errors in header-only library packaging. The user also addressed a typo in the fPIC option implementation, and contributed to the addition of a linker scripts configuration variable. Furthermore, the user added functions for detecting libc versions.
cppcmakepackage-managerlinuxmulti-platform
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