Jordan A. Reese
Full-stack engineer and founder. Web platforms, AI tooling and distributed systems
Brooklyn, NY  ·  (+1) 555 0142  ·  jordan@reese.dev
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Summary

Full-stack engineer and founder. Web platforms, AI tooling and distributed systems.

Skills

Core   React · TypeScript · Next.js · Node.js (Express, Fastify) · Python · PostgreSQL · Redis

Also   GraphQL · REST API design · AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3) · Docker · Kubernetes · CI/CD (GitHub Actions) · LLM agents

More   RAG · vector search · OpenAI / Claude APIs · observability (Grafana, OpenTelemetry) · event-driven architecture

Experience

Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Labs, RemoteJun 2018 – Feb 2021

Series B fintech platform.

Led the migration of a monolith to TypeScript microservices, cutting deploy times from 40 to 6 minutes.

Owned the payments and reconciliation services (Node, PostgreSQL, Stripe) processing $90M annually.

Mentored four engineers and authored the team's RFC and code-review process.

Founder & CTO · Lumen Stack, Brooklyn, NYMar 2021 – Present

Developer-tools startup. Self-serve platform with 12,000+ signups.

Built the product end to end: React + TypeScript frontend, Node and Python services on AWS, growing to 12,000+ developer signups.

Designed an event-driven microservices backend handling 4M+ daily API calls with sub-100ms p95 latency.

Shipped an AI assistant (LLM agents + RAG over the docs) that cut support tickets by 35%.

Hired and led a team of 6 engineers; set the CI/CD, testing and on-call standards.

Software Engineer · Brightwave, New York, NYJul 2016 – May 2018

Consumer analytics product.

Built React dashboards and a GraphQL API layer used by 200+ enterprise customers.

Introduced end-to-end testing (Playwright) and reduced production regressions by half.

Selected Projects

Cinder   Open-source CLI for scaffolding type-safe full-stack apps. 3,400 GitHub stars.

Tideways   A self-hosted RAG search engine over your own documents, built with Node and pgvector.

promptkit   A small library for building and testing LLM agent tools, used in production at Lumen Stack.

Education

BSc, Computer Science · Eastvale University, NY2012 – 2016

Languages

English (native)  ·  Spanish (fluent)