Nick Jordan

People-first engineering leader with proven experience building teams and delivering value. Providing technical knowledge, strategic thinking and empathic management to engineering organizations. Over the last 13+ years, I've contributed architecture and code to projects as diverse as data warehousing, faceted search, business process automation, feed ingestion, streaming video conversion, and identity management targeting both in the cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Since transitioning to management I've built teams (both locally and abroad), adopted existing teams (and quickly gained their respect), and learned some hard lessons about what it takes to make a team successful. I enjoy working with in a DevOps focused organization where engineers stay as close to the running code as possible. I find that this builds a sense of ownership and pride that you don't get any other way. I have demonstrated excellence working in green or brown field projects and have successfully built several feature teams in addition to a sustaining engineering organization. As a student of the times, I'm interested in the challenges of microservices, DDD, containerization, and the PaaS/IaaS promise of infinite scalability without hardware management.