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Jordan Rivera

Senior Software Engineer

jordan.rivera@example.com,+1 555 0110,Austin, TX,linkedin.com/in/jordanrivera,github.com/jordanrivera

Summary

Senior software engineer with 8+ years building high-scale backend platforms. Drives reliability, clean architecture, and mentorship across teams.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2021 - Present
Skyline SystemsAustin, TX
  • - Re-architected the order pipeline to an event-driven design handling 30M events/day, cutting p99 latency 42%.
  • - Led a 6-engineer team and introduced service SLOs, reducing production incidents 55%.
  • - Mentored 5 engineers; established the internal design-review guild.

Software Engineer

Jul 2016 - Jan 2021
Loop RetailRemote
  • - Built the payments service processing $80M/year with 99.98% uptime.
  • - Cut API costs 30% via caching and query optimization.

Education

University of Texas

2012 - 2016
B.S. Computer Science

Projects

ratelimit-go

github.com/jordanrivera/ratelimit-go
2022 - Present
Author
  • - Distributed rate limiter library, 900+ stars.

Skills & Awards

Technical Skills:Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC
Certifications:AWS Solutions Architect - Professional
Awards:Engineering Excellence Award, 2023