Jordan Webb
Verified Expert in Engineering
Systems Engineer and Software Developer
Skokie, IL, United States
Toptal member since October 14, 2022
Jordan is a systems programmer, full-stack engineer, and writer. He specializes in designing and implementing processes and tools to help disparate systems work better together. Jordan can design and build back ends and API services, set up continuous integration (CI), package and publish software, write documentation and technical articles, or even build custom Linux distributions.
Portfolio
Experience
- Operating Systems - 20 years
- C - 20 years
- Linux - 20 years
- Python - 12 years
- Docker - 10 years
- GitHub - 8 years
- Yocto - 3 years
- Go - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Docker, Python, C, Go, GitHub
The most amazing...
...thing I've worked on is GitHub Enterprise Server, which packages all of the services that make up GitHub into a single virtual machine.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Seam
- Developed custom Linux distribution for a smart home hub and ported it to several different hardware platforms.
- Worked with overseas original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop processes to flash firmware at the factory.
- Designed and built a system to securely provision device and issue certificates to verify device identity.
- Designed and built a delta update system for Docker containers.
- Designed and built a system to provide transparent bi-directional encrypted connections to devices deployed behind network address translation (NAT).
Senior Software Engineer
GitHub
- Provided technical leadership to a team building GitHub Enterprise Server.
- Built and maintained publishing pipelines for virtual machine images across seven different hypervisors and cloud platforms.
- Packaged and containerized over twenty different internal GitHub services.
- Established and maintained sponsorship of the Debian long-term support (LTS) project.
Senior Software Engineer
Cleversafe (now IBM Cloud Object Storage)
- Assisted in creating custom Linux distribution for cloud storage appliances and ported it to a virtual appliance.
- Migrated a company to Git and managed source code escrow requirements.
- Created Python modules to expose low-level kernel and networking functionality to applications.
- Assisted representatives with IBM during source code audit during acquisition.
Experience
Python-Starlark-Go
https://github.com/caketop/python-starlark-go/Python-renameat2
https://github.com/jordemort/python-renameat2/Action Pyright
https://github.com/jordemort/action-pyright/Gf-l100-lightcontrol
https://github.com/jordemort/gf-l100-lightcontrol/Personal Website
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, Illinois, United States
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, Illinois, United States
Skills
Libraries/APIs
REST APIs, Vue, Node.js
Tools
GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, Hyper-V, Astro
Languages
Python, Bash, C, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, Assembly, TypeScript, Java
Platforms
Linux, Docker, Debian, Debian Linux, Red Hat Linux, Embedded Linux, Raspberry Pi, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Storage
JSON, PostgreSQL
Frameworks
Next.js
Other
APIs, Debian Packaging, Back-end, Scripting, Operating Systems, Networking, Yocto, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Low-level Programming, LXC, VMware ESXi, Cloudflare
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