Jordan is available for hire

Jordan Garcia

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

New York, NY, United States

Toptal Member Since

October 16, 2017

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.

jQuery React Vue Python Redux Flux Node.js PostgreSQL Git Unix Django PHP Amazon Web Services (AWS)MongoDB MySQL

Portfolio

Optimizely

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

Huddler

PostgreSQL, JavaScript, PHP

Skill Capped

jQuery, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP

Experience

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

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Vim Text Editor, Unix, Git

The most amazing...

...experiences I've had are being able to empower other individuals to create amazing things.

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

Experience

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

http://www.skill-capped.com/wow/

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.

Skills

Languages

JavaScript, Python, PHP, Clojure, PHP 7

Frameworks

NuclearJS, Flux, Redux, Django, Angular

Libraries/APIs

React, jQuery, Vue, Node.js

Paradigms

Testing, Functional Programming

Tools

Git, Vim Text Editor, Photoshop CC

Platforms

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

Storage

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL

Education

2007 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics

Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA, USA

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