Nick Jordan
Director, Platform Engineering
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Jordan is a people-first platform engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling backend systems, distributed services, and cloud-native infrastructure. As Director of Platform Engineering and former Head of Backend at Appcues, he has grown remote teams across continents, led major migrations (Firebase → Postgres, homegrown infra → Terraform), and saved organizations six-figure sums through vendor and cloud cost optimizations. He balances strategic architecture—microservices, DDD, containerization—with empathetic management that prioritizes engineer ownership and observability. A founder who also built a multi-tenant SaaS for the carwash industry, he brings operator-minded product sensibilities and a track record of turning legacy codebases into sustainable, measurable systems. Based in Somerville, MA, Nick is equally comfortable writing code, negotiating partner contracts, and designing SLO-driven reliability for production systems.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Informatics/New Media, BS, Informatics/New Media at Indiana University IndianapolisB.S, Media Arts and Sciences; Web, B.S, Media Arts and Sciences; Web at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
School of Informatics
Github Skills (11)
xcode10
objective-c10
carthage10
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods10
capacitor1
ionic1
android1
capacitor-plugin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nckjrdn/BugBash20178
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
appcues/cid-engineer-project
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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