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Christopher Jordan

@christopherjordan2

Senior backend engineer specializing in high-throughput Go systems, performance optimization, and cloud-native architecture.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior backend or platform roles focused on high-throughput systems, performance optimization, strong observability, and mentoring within collaborative, product-driven engineering teams.

I am a senior backend engineer with 8+ years building scalable, high-performance systems across logistics, cloud storage, EdTech, and health-tech domains.

At Uber I architected the highest-QPS Go geofence service in production, led LLM-driven PerfInsights deployments, and implemented memory-leak detection that removed hundreds of goroutine leaks and dramatically reduced memory usage.

Previously, I led backend architecture for Seagate's Lyve Cloud, improving transfer efficiency and reliability for enterprise S3-compatible storage, and built event-driven analytics platforms and secure APIs at Goji Labs and Stripe.

I prioritize measurable performance improvements, robust observability, CI/CD automation, and mentoring engineering teams to ship resilient, secure APIs aligned with business goals.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Uber

Jan 2024 - Present (1 year 9 months)

Architected and led Go-based high-throughput geospatial and LLM-driven performance platforms, reducing P99 latency to sub-100ms and cutting SLO violations by 61% while delivering 200+ optimization diffs with verified infrastructure savings.

Go Performance Profiling Distributed Systems Bazel Observability 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 transfer efficiency 45% and supporting 700TB+ monthly while implementing fault-tolerant ingest pipelines and reducing MTTR by 55%.

Python Go Redis OpenTelemetry CI CD Docker PostgreSQL

Backend Engineer

Goji Labs

Apr 2019 - Sep 2020 (1 year 5 months)

Built Node.js and Python event-processing services for an EdTech analytics platform serving 50K+ active users, reducing API latency 40% and enabling real-time dashboards and observability.

Node Python PostgreSQL Redis Express OAUTH2 Prometheus RESTful APIs

Software Engineer

Stripe

Jun 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 9 months)

Delivered Sources API and multiple payments workflows using Node.js and Python, streamlining merchant onboarding and building antifraud and billing systems that improved fraud detection and subscription management.