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Jordan Garcia

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

New York, NY, United States

Toptal member since October 16, 2017

Expertise

jQuery JavaScript React.js Vue.js Python Redux Node.js PostgreSQL Angular Git Unix Django PHP AWS MongoDB

Bio

Jordan is a former Silicon Valley engineer and co-founder with over a decade of engineering experience working for high profile Ycombinator companies. At his last company, Optimizely, he was the frontend technical lead, pioneering many internal projects as well as open sourcing the popular front-end framework NuclearJS. He looks forward to helping companies solve their toughest engineering challenges.

Portfolio

Optimizely

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Django, Vue, React, Python...

Huddler

PostgreSQL, JavaScript, PHP

Skill Capped

jQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP

Experience

jQuery - 8 years
JavaScript - 8 years
PostgreSQL - 7 years
Python - 4 years
Angular - 4 years
React - 3 years
Redux - 2 years

Work Experience

Staff Software Engineer

2014 - 2017

Optimizely

Led a team of more than ten front-p-end engineers as well as creating all the front-end frameworks that the Optimizely web application is built upon.
Acted as the tech lead for the Optimizely Personalization product, Optimizely's second product offering.
Worked as the key architect on the Optimizely JavaScript SDK that is embedded in thousands of websites.
Cultivated a testing culture—creating test frameworks for other engineers to have comfortable test coverage over the code they wrote.

Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Django, Vue, React, Python, JavaScript

Senior Software Engineer

2013 - 2014

Huddler

Assisted with a front-end refactor of jQuery to a component-based system.
Rewrote the articles system on all of Huddlers properties.
Built an analytics reporting dashboard.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, JavaScript, PHP

Co-founder

2009 - 2013

Skill Capped

Built a video content management system.
Managed and was responsible for the design of Skill-Capped.com.
Built features, end-to-end, from design to data model, API, and front-end.

Technologies: jQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP

Project History

NuclearJS

https://github.com/optimizely/nuclear-js

A JavaScript Flux framework for state management. Currently, it is being used by several large companies in production, including Optimizely.

Skill Capped

My startup in college, an instructional video website for the game World of Warcraft. Throughout its eight years in production, it's amassed over 200,000 paying subscribers.

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics

Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, jQuery, Vue, Node.js

Tools

Git, Vim Text Editor, Photoshop CC

Languages

JavaScript, Python, PHP, Clojure, PHP 7

Frameworks

NuclearJS, Flux, Redux, Django, Angular

Paradigms

Testing, Functional Programming

Platforms

Unix, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App Engine, Amazon EC2

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL

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