Jordon Phillips
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Berlin, Germany
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Jordon Phillips is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating high-quality backend tooling at AWS, currently on the Smithy team where he helps generate client and server code for multiple languages. He brings deep expertise in SDKs and CLIs—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like boto3, botocore, aws-cli, and multiple AWS SDKs for Go and JavaScript—improving correctness, protocol handling, and test coverage. Obsessed with automation and quality, he focuses on eliminating manual work across code generation, serialization/deserialization, and CI-level tests. His work spans practical S3 and API Gateway integrations to language-agnostic IDL improvements, showing both product-facing and platform engineering impact. Based in Berlin, he combines a systems-level understanding of cloud APIs with a pragmatic engineering style that favors reliable automation over ad hoc fixes. An unassuming detail: he actively tightens parsing/validation and error propagation in libraries that many other teams depend on, reducing subtle production issues at scale.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering / Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Engineering / Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (51)
ec10
json-rpc10
unit-testing10
apim10
amazon-cloudfront10
javascript10
boto10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
testing10
typescript10
amazon-iam10
amazon-web-services10
codegen10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
smithy-lang/smithy
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Smithy is a protocol-agnostic interface definition language and set of tools for generating clients, servers, and documentation for any programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:529 reviews, 1042 commits, 391 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordon primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Smithy project. They made changes to the IDL (Interface Definition Language) specification, specifically in relation to documentation and error messages. Additionally, the user added features related to API Gateway and the AWS platform, demonstrating experience with back-end development and API integrations, and also updating internal components.
smithyagnosticsmithy-modelsprogramming-languageclients
aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 96 commits, 47 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jordon contributed to the AWS SDK for Go programming language by implementing JSON RPC deserialization support and by generating the corresponding protocol tests. They added support for deserializing error messages and codes, ensuring proper error handling. Furthermore, the user added the version range for AWS traits dependency to ensure compatibility. They also addressed issues related to timestamp pointers.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
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