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Christopher Jordan

@christopherjordan1

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Senior backend engineer specializing in high-throughput Go systems, LLM observability, and cloud-native infrastructure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior backend or platform roles where I can lead Go-based infrastructure, improve observability/LLM tooling, mentor engineers, and deliver measurable performance and reliability gains.

I am a senior backend engineer with 8+ years building scalable, high-performance systems across logistics, cloud storage, EdTech, and health-tech. I lead Go-based infrastructure and have driven LLM-powered observability, ultra-high-throughput geospatial services, memory-safe concurrency improvements, and substantial cost and performance optimizations at enterprise scale.

I mentor engineers, shape CI/CD and monorepo Bazel practices, and collaborate cross-functionally to align engineering execution with business goals. My work has delivered measurable results—reduced latencies, fewer SLO violations, large core savings, and improved MTTR—while contributing to open-source tooling and platform reliability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

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Uber

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Architected and maintained Uber's highest-QPS Go geofence lookup service, achieving sub-100ms P99 and improving throughput 37% while reducing SLO violations 61%; led deployment of an LLM-powered PerfInsights platform delivering 200+ optimization diffs and saving 11,000+ cores daily via GC and PGO tuning.

Go Performance Profiling Distributed Systems Bazel OpenTelemetry CI CD

Senior Backend Engineer

Seagate Technology

Oct 2020 - Dec 2023 (3 years 2 months)

Led backend architecture for Lyve Cloud S3-compatible storage, increasing data transfer efficiency 45% and supporting 700TB+ monthly; implemented JWT-secured service mesh and fault-tolerant ingest pipelines achieving 99.99% SLA and reduced latency 38%.

Python Go Redis OpenTelemetry JWT CI CD Docker

Backend Engineer

Goji Labs

Apr 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 5 months)

Led backend development for an EdTech analytics platform serving 50K+ active users, reducing API latency 40% and enabling real-time dashboards through event stream processing and optimized data pipelines.

Python PostgreSQL Redis Express OAUTH2 JWT Prometheus Event Streaming

Software Engineer

Stripe

Jun 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 9 months)

Delivered the Sources API and multiple payment platform features (Billing, Radar anti-fraud, Terminal), simplifying merchant onboarding and improving fraud detection and subscription workflows across global markets.

Python React Fraud Detection Microservices Webhooks API Design

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Florida International University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2013 - 2017

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework and projects focused on software engineering, data structures, and systems programming.