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Jordan Hodges

@jordanhodges

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Creative technologist and automation developer blending design and full‑stack engineering.

Spain

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles that combine creative design and full‑stack engineering, emphasizing cross‑disciplinary collaboration, impact‑driven products, and opportunities to lead automation and cloud infrastructure projects.

I am a creative technologist and automation developer who combines full‑stack engineering with UI/UX design to build production-ready software and meaningful user experiences.

I hold a Master in Design for Emergent Futures and a BA in Computer Science with a minor in Mechanical Design, and I bring experience designing interfaces, prototypes, and automation for enterprise and research contexts.

At IBM I contributed to backend data solutions, full‑stack development, HIPAA‑compliant automated testing, and cost‑saving automations; I also hold a U.S. patent for an autonomous screen‑sharing method.

I collaborate across interdisciplinary teams, lead projects end‑to‑end, and apply tools from cloud infrastructure to DSP and creative coding to solve technical and design problems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Designer & Creative Technologist

Current

Good Neighbor Gardens

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year)

Designed visual assets, updated website content, and created brand-aligned materials to improve digital storytelling and audience engagement for an urban farming initiative.

Visual Design Web Design Brand Development HTML CSS Figma UX

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Creative Technologist

Current

OMD2.eu

Jan 2025 - Present (1 year)

Supported an EU-funded music-tech research project through design, workflow development, and creative-technical prototyping to bridge innovation and community research.

Prototyping Interaction Design Figma Workflow Automation

Back-End Engineer

IBM

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Engineered and deployed watsonx.data solutions, worked with Presto, Hive, Spark and S3 to design fault-tolerant data lake integrations and APIs for enterprise data services.

Presto Apache Hive Spark AWS S3 Iceberg API Design IBM Cloud Data Lake

Full-Stack Developer

IBM

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022 (3 years 11 months)

Led UI redesigns for IBM Database Conversion Workbench, implemented HIPAA-compliant automated testing, and developed automation for cost-savings in Watson Query SaaS.

UI Design Automated Testing HIPAA Java Spring Boot React CI CD

IT Intern

Mayne Pharma

Jan 2016 - Present (10 years)

Developed interactive multimedia training modules and collaborated with stakeholders to identify key training needs for internal staff development.

Training Development Multimedia Content Stakeholder Engagement HTML Video Editing

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Elisava School of Design and Engineering

Master in Design for Emergent Futures, Design for Emergent Futures

2022 - 2023

Completed a Master in Design for Emergent Futures with a focus on design, emergent technologies, and creative-technical problem solving.

East Carolina University

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science

2014 - 2019

Activities and societies: Minor in Mechanical Design; National Society of Black Engineers (Chapter President, 2018–2019)

Earned a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science with a Minor in Mechanical Design, focusing on software development and interdisciplinary design practices.