Jordan Timmerman

Experience

• Software Engineer (Core Tech)

  Better.com
  June 2019 ‒ Present

  Founding engineer of platform team. Author of strongly-typed libraries used daily by >80% of engineers. Organizer and MC of Core Tech Office Hours, attended monthly by >35% of engineering.

  @better/events

  • TypeScript
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • AWS Managed Streaming with Kafka (MSK)
  • KafkaHQ
  • Kubernetes

  Strongly-typed event definitions library + client in TypeScript. Gracefully degrades to JSONSchema in Python. Used with Kafka on AWS. Strong tooling and docs: wiki, docker-compose templates, make commands, worker abstractions.

  Core Tech Office Hours

  • public speaking
  • event organization
  • beer acquisition
  • friendliness

  Popular monthly event regularly attended by 65+ engineers. Organizer and host. Features include contributor spotlight, tutorials, updates, Q&A, beer, pizza. Recently, less beer and pizza, more Keanu gifs on zoom.

  Plaid Integration

  • TypeScript + Node.js
  • Ember.js
  • AWS S3, ActiveMQ
  • WebSockets
  • Internal frameworks

  Moved critical third-party bank statement vendor integration from AccountChek to Plaid. Safely deployed side-by-side for rapid failover. Increased conversion to 20% from single digits. Enabled instantaneous user feedback.

  Makefile.includes

  • make
  • CI/CD (Buildkite)
  • Docker
  • sh, bash
  • npm
  • pypi
  • Artifactory

  Makefile include library with testing framework. Automates versioning and library publishing, handling integration-testing against dependents; abstracts docker commands; generates help text; and more.

• PhD Student (Computer Science)

  Northwestern University
  September 2019 ‒ June 2019

  Focused on compilers, specifically: autoparallelization, OpenMP, and C++. Extended C++ to allow developers to give parallelization hints to the compiler. Left program to return to industry.

  • C++ (11, 14)
  • LLVM
  • Clang

• Software Engineer

  Deep Dish Technology
  June 2017 ‒ February 2019

  First engineer. Led team of 4 building offline-first, embeddable forms language, compiler, & visual editor in JavaScript and TypeScript. Built generative feedback systems. Designed multi-tenant versioned repository for forms and responses.

  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3
  • Serverless
  • Webpack, Rollup

• Software Engineer

  Encurate Mobile
  June 2016 ‒ December 2016

  Backend architect. Built serverless Content Management System for Museum Apps Platform. Developed cross-stack TypeScript validation library using decorators and compiler-emitted type info to generate models. Taught Angular 2 to team, led front-end development.

  • TypeScript
  • Angular 2
  • AWS API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3
  • Bash (tooling)

• Student Developer

  Northwestern Multimedia Learning Center
  October 2013 ‒ June 2017

  Over 4 years for 12 hours/week, developed independent, full-stack projects in React, JavaScript, Java WebObjects, and PHP. Built cross-platform audio recording software deployed in Northwestern's online language placement exams supporting iOS, Android, and browsers. (In 2016.)