Jordan Avery

Austin, TX

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About

Backend engineer with 6 years of experience building reliable APIs, event-driven services, and developer tooling for SaaS products. Strong in TypeScript, Node.js, PostgreSQL, distributed systems, observability, and cloud infrastructure.

Projects

  • Application Automation Sandbox

    built a browser-based form filling prototype for testing ATS workflows with synthetic candidate data.

  • Reliability Toolkit

    created internal libraries for retries, structured logging, and request correlation.

Experience

  • 2022 — Present

    Senior Backend Engineer

    Northstar Systems

    Built TypeScript API services that processed 40M monthly workflow events with 99.95 percent uptime.

    Designed PostgreSQL data models and background workers that reduced queue latency by 38 percent.

    Added OpenTelemetry tracing and service dashboards that cut production incident triage time by 45 percent.

  • 2019 — 2022

    Backend Engineer

    AtlasWorks

    Developed REST and GraphQL APIs for account, billing, and reporting systems used by 25K customers.

    Migrated legacy jobs to a message-driven architecture using Redis queues and idempotent workers.

    Partnered with product managers and designers to ship secure, accessible customer workflows.

Education

  • 2015-10 — 2019-10

    University of Texas at Austin

    B.S. Computer Science

Skills

TypeScript · Node.js · React · PostgreSQL · Redis · AWS · Docker · CI/CD · REST · GraphQL · Convex · Playwright · OpenTelemetry