Profile
Jordan Blake
A systems engineer and product-minded problem solver who builds dependable developer tools
Skills
- Go, TypeScript, Python, and PostgreSQL
- Distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architecture
- Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, and observability
- Technical strategy, mentoring, and incident learning
Projects
Original
- Atlas Control Plane: Self-service deployment platform with safe defaults and one-click rollbacks
- Signalbox: Observability toolkit for focused production debugging
- Fieldnotes: Research workspace with source-grounded summaries and human review
- Queue Garden: Visual playground for learning event-driven system design
- Tiny Bench: Reproducible performance experiments for backend services
Contributions
- OpenTelemetry: Documentation and instrumentation examples
- Kubernetes: Developer experience improvements for local workflows
- PostgreSQL: Testing and documentation contributions
Experience
Northstar Labs
- Staff Software Engineer, 2022—present
- Technical lead for a platform group serving product engineering and data teams
Common Thread
- Senior Software Engineer, 2019—2022
- Led a migration from a monolith to an event-driven architecture
Tandem Works
- Software Engineer, 2016—2019
- Shipped customer analytics and an internal design system
Contacts
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