JUSTIN JORDAN Senior full-stack engineer building product systems, event-driven backends, and AI-assisted workflow automation. justinjordan.dev | linkedin.com/in/justintjordan ======================================================================== SUMMARY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A decade of experience shipping production software, most recently event-driven serverless systems on AWS and AI-assisted product operations: I run a founder-operated product where LLM import, QA, and eval pipelines let one person manage a 13,000-product catalog, and I solely built and operate a serverless pipeline that moves up to 20,000 photos a day for a publishing client. Earlier, I led two engineering teams at a live-commerce platform building commerce features used by 4,000+ retailers driving billions in sales. I work best owning a product area end to end - understanding the product, designing the system, building across the stack, and automating the painful parts. SKILLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Languages - TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS (Sass) Frontend - React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Redux Toolkit, RTK Query, Pinia, Vuetify, Material UI, PrimeNG, Cypress Backend & APIs - Node.js, NestJS, FastAPI, Laravel, GraphQL, REST/RESTful APIs, OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect (OIDC) Cloud & DevOps - AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EventBridge, AWS Amplify, AWS SAM, Serverless Framework, Terraform, Docker, Linux, NGINX, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) Databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redshift, Microsoft SQL Server AI & Automation - AI/LLM-assisted workflow automation, Vercel AI SDK, Vercel AI Gateway, OpenRouter, Firecrawl, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic coding tools (Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, GitHub Copilot), Human-in-the-loop data import, QA, and eval pipelines Additional - Java (Spring Boot), C# (.NET), WordPress, Craft CMS, Agile/Scrum EXPERIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software Consultant Solution Design Group (2023-Present) Returned as an embedded senior consultant for client teams in publishing and healthcare - event-driven AWS systems, Next.js and NestJS services, and new Angular applications, demoing work directly to client stakeholders and product teams. - Diagnosed and fixed a Next.js middleware bug that was silently disabling caching across a media client's entire site - cutting thousands of dollars a month in unnecessary API usage costs. - Designed, built, and solely operated a serverless photo pipeline (AWS Lambda, S3, SQS, EventBridge) that moves up to 20,000 photos a day from photographers across the country into the CMS, auto-populating records from photo metadata - still in production today. - Built a serverless event system that enriches CMS content events with canonical IDs from internal APIs and fans them out over SNS to downstream consumers - the GraphQL API serving the client's web and mobile apps, a legacy API, and the Redshift analytics warehouse. - Replaced a subscription site's login system with a third-party identity provider and architected the client-side state management behind authentication and paywall validation. - Built multiple greenfield Angular and PrimeNG applications on a three-developer team - owning implementation and much of the UX design - and took the client's frontend from untested to near-complete unit and E2E coverage (Jasmine, Cypress). - Use AI tooling where it earns its keep on client work - debugging, unit and E2E test authoring, and codebase exploration - while keeping production code handwritten to client standards. Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead CommentSold (2021-2023) Live-commerce SaaS platform where retailers sell through live video. Worked across four product teams and led two of them. - Founding engineer on Videeo - CommentSold's white-label live-video-commerce product, still on the market today - and later its Engineering Team Lead, managing four engineers plus a QA specialist, interviewing candidates, and mentoring junior and mid-level engineers. - Built Videeo's embeddable SDK and stream player, letting third-party e-commerce sites host live shopping streams (TypeScript, Vue 3, Pinia). - Built the analytics and sales-attribution system (Redshift) used by every customer to measure sales driven through the platform. - Led the team that built a greenfield React marketplace (Redux Toolkit, RTK Query) showcasing every CommentSold shop in one portal, with purchasing from live streams. - Developed and maintained core commerce features - shopping cart, product catalog - used by 4,000+ retailers driving billions in sales (Laravel, React, Vue). Software Consultant Solution Design Group (2019-2021) Consulting engineer embedded with product teams in security, manufacturing, and construction tech - often leading the frontend and reaching into the backend when needed. - Led frontend development of a greenfield security threat-monitoring application (Vue, TypeScript, Vuetify). - Maintained a global client's React design framework and helped maintain its Java Spring backend - and diagnosed a performance issue whose fix made API responses orders of magnitude faster. - Key contributor on a multi-year, 100+ person program consolidating separate e-commerce platforms into one unified experience for a manufacturing client (Vue, TypeScript, C#/.NET Core). - Built a React and AWS Amplify application from scratch to track construction assets in real time, owning the frontend architecture. Web Developer Morsekode (2019) Full-stack web developer at an advertising and marketing agency - web builds, CMS migrations, server setup, and direct client collaboration. - Led a university website redesign and Craft CMS 2-to-3 migration: frontend, Twig templates, custom plugins, database, and the hosting environment. - Reverse-engineered the site's abandoned, unsupported structural plugin - used to nest and organize every page - and rebuilt its functionality from scratch to unblock the migration. - Built a Vue and Laravel application for sharing video revisions with clients. Full Stack Developer Avallo (2016-2019) Full-stack developer at a custom web and application shop - front and back end development, server setup and maintenance, and taking projects from ideation to production. - Built an Angular application from the ground up helping families find senior living communities, and designed its Node.js backend. - Created a dynamic reporting system in Vue and PHP with a GUI query builder generating reports from MySQL data. - Contributed to the company's in-house PHP framework and CMS, and assisted with Linux server deployments and hosting. SELECTED PROJECTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RigPlan - rigplan.co Founder-operated product system Stack: Next.js / TypeScript / Supabase / Vercel AI SDK / Firecrawl / OpenClaw Built and operate a planning platform for camper vans, RVs, trailers, and tiny homes serving hundreds of users a day, with AI-assisted catalog operations that let one person manage 13,000+ products - a scale that would otherwise be unreasonable. - Built AI SDK workflows for product descriptions, spec extraction, record revision, and admin-side catalog operations. - Created an import pipeline that uses affiliate sitemaps, Firecrawl, Markdown extraction, LLM-assisted parsing, and human review to bring 13,000+ products into the system - imports land roughly 80% publish-ready, and downstream QA catches the rest. - Run hourly agentic QA routines (OpenClaw) that evaluate imported products - descriptions, photos, specs, categorization, and planning options - and either publish, fix and publish, or escalate to human review, with alerts flowing through GitHub issues and Telegram. - Prototyped catalog correction as a Claude-driven MCP server, then replaced it with the scheduled agentic QA above once that proved the better fit. Where Is Justin - whereisjustin.com Hand-built travel publishing system Stack: Python / FastAPI / PostgreSQL / Next.js Built a map-first travel log without AI assistance as a deliberate fundamentals project, starting with the backend and then layering on a separate Next.js frontend for photos, notes, and location history. - Designed and built a Python/FastAPI API with SQLModel and PostgreSQL for travel locations, notes, and publishing data. - Built the separate Next.js frontend around map interaction, component architecture, and a lightweight publishing experience. EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Post-secondary coursework plus an audio engineering diploma.