Hello! My name is Jordan - currently living in Berlin, previously in New York City, Philly, Miami, Paris, Bremen, and Nice. My university studies are currently on hold, until I transfer to a uni here in Berlin (studying computer science, formerly at Jacobs University (now Constructor University) in Bremen, Germany).
I’m currently looking for work! My last role was as an Associate Application Programmer on the Payments and Authorization team at Marley Spoon. My work included maintaining and adding new features to the Marley Spoon API and the Payments Processing microservice. Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Postgres, Redis, GraphQL, and Kafka. It was an enriching and eye-opening experience, but I’m looking forward to the next challenge!
My career goals are kind of unknown at the moment. Currently I really enjoy (mostly the idea) of creating developer tooling but past that I have no idea what I’ll do.
Like most people, I have ideas for and start many projects (like this website) depending on how motivated I feel. Hopefully writing about them will push me to actually finish some of the other ones.
If you’re someone looking to possibly hire me for an internship or job, (thank you!) here is my LinkedIn and my resume.
Currently open projects
-
jwav - a
.wavvisualizer using zig and raylib (just started procrastination project) -
zxd - an
xxdclone written in zig (in the optimization phase, unfortunately) - zbg - a backgammon engine and API written in zig (paused for now)
- Death is a Blessing - a game concept, just exploring (paused for now)
Wishlist projects
-
IRC server (and eventually client) written in zig
- Could even be fun to add features on top, like voice chat, if that’s at all possible 👀
- Would really need to consider this though, because building an IM and VoIP platform would kind of f*cking suck
- onvim - my own gh-codespaces on my vps, utilizing my own nvim config and crun containers
- Kindle portable library - a small kindle app that starts a webserver to share books currently on my kindle
- TUI or Qt based music tracker
-
Sometime later leverage
zxdto create a hex editor, with TUI
Recently closed projects
Both of these were done kind of poorly, and need to be both refactored and written about here
I’ve been reading…
Check out my Goodreads
- Atomic Habits (James Clear)
- 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know (Imran Ahmad)
- The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1 (Donald E. Knuth)
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
Check out my Letterboxd to see what I’ve been watching