Jordan Rivera
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SUMMARY
Backend software engineer with 5 years building reliable, observable services in
Python and Go. Focused on distributed systems, API design, and developer tooling.

EXPERIENCE

Northwind Data, Remote — Senior Software Engineer (2023 – Present)
Led the redesign of the ingestion pipeline, cutting median processing latency from
40 minutes to under 3 by introducing streaming and backpressure.
Built an internal observability library (traces + cost accounting) adopted by 6 teams.
Mentored 3 junior engineers; owned the on-call runbook for the data platform.

Acme Cloud, Berlin — Software Engineer (2020 – 2023)
Designed and shipped a multi-region rate limiter handling 50k requests/second.
Migrated a monolith's billing module to a service with zero customer-facing downtime.
Introduced contract testing, reducing integration regressions by ~60%.

Byteworks, Bangalore — Junior Developer (2019 – 2020)
Built REST APIs in Flask; wrote the first automated test suite for the core product.

PROJECTS

trace-lite — Open Source (2022)
A tiny OpenTelemetry-based tracing helper for Python services. ~800 GitHub stars.

kv-bench — Benchmark Suite (2021)
Reproducible benchmarks comparing embedded key-value stores under mixed workloads.

SKILLS
Languages: Python, Go, SQL, TypeScript
Systems: Distributed systems, gRPC/REST APIs, message queues, caching
Data & Infra: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging

EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science, State University (2015 – 2019) — GPA 3.7

ACHIEVEMENTS
Speaker at a regional Python conference (2023) on service observability.
Maintainer of two open-source Python libraries with combined 1k+ stars.
