Software Engineer                                                  Jordan Dashel
Backend Web Dev                                           jordan at dashel.email
DevOps/SRE and Linux                                            jordandashel.com

                                -- EXPERIENCE --

BLOOMBERG LP: Senior SRE/Software Engineer; NYC, NY; 2022-Present
 Python; Bash; Docker; internal Bloomberg Terminal technologies

BOWERY FARMING: Software Engineer; NYC, NY; 2021-2022
 Elixir/Erlang+OTP; Bash; Docker; HashiCorp Nomad
 - Wrote, read, and repaired Elixir code to grow sustainable produce in 
     automated warehouses with robots and data-driven growing strategies.
 - Created case barcode labels to in compliance with national regulations
     (PTI labels standard).
 - Improved the UI of established custom-built in-house build and run scripts.
 - Repaired the Erlang EPMDless clustering configuration which significantly
     improved the developer experience when SSH'ing into the running 
     production and nonprod Erlang clusters.
 - Worked closely with Data Engineers in order to grow and termitate crops in
     the most efficient manner.
 - Started "PR PRty" an open Pull Request review session, after many devs felt
     sluggishness in getting eyes on PRs.

NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: DevOps Engineer; NYC, NY; 2019-2021
 Python; Terraform; AWS (ECS, Lambda, etc.); Docker; NGINX
 - Built out an alpha "What's on?" microservice and added tests, functionality,
     and otherwise made it production-ready in order to work to replace an
     old legacy service.
 - Built a network simulation test harness to debug old and complex NGINX
     configurations: http://unettest.net
 - Maintained the daily upkeep of a number of public and internal websites
     to support a dedicated reporting team at WNYC, WQXR, and Gothamist.com
 - Implemented and integrated a Secrets Management solution for the team.
 - Paired with and mentored a junior dev in TDD, development strategies,
     infrastructure techniques and patterns, etc.

HIATUS
 Moved by Bicycle from Seattle to NY -- acrossthecountryin90days.com

NORDSTROM: SDE 1, SDE 2; Seattle, WA; 2016-2018
 Java; Python; AWS (DynamoDB, ElasticBeanstalk, S3, etc.); Kubernetes 
 - Promoted within a year as a member of the Asset Management Platform team. 
 - Responsible for the maintenance, extension, and Ops for a suite of AWS Java
     Spring Boot apps serving more than 12 Million images at rates of Hundreds
     of Millions of daily requests to nordstrom.com
 - Led a high-visibility greenfield machine learning project, AMP Color
     Extraction, a Tensorflow neural net developed by a company Data Scientist.
 - Took a python notebook proof of concept and turned it into a robust, highly
     available production application. Later extended to be a general neural net
     feature extraction and delivery service for all of Nordstrom's images.
 - Planned a transition for the team's major apps off of AWS ElasticBeanstalk
     onto a multi-cloud Kubernetes platform as supported by internal OPs team.

PARAMETRIC PORTFOLIO ASSOCIATES: Intern; Seattle, WA; 2015
 Dot-Net & C#; Ruby; HTML/CSS/JS (Reactjs)
 - 3-month internship, renewed for a second 3-month period. A strong focus on 
     Code as Craft.
 - Trained in the methodology of Test Driven Development, Clean Code, SOLID etc.
 - Developed an ASP.NET MVC platform for future interns to host their projects.
 - Contributed the first app to this platform: a product in collaboration with
     traders at the company to replace a critical but unmaintained excel script.

                                -- EDUCATION --

NORTH SEATTLE COLLEGE; AS - 3.67; Seattle, WA; 2012-2014

                                -- PHILOSOPHY --

 I believe in taking the time and care to produce high-quality code. I optimize
 for readability, flexibility in my software. My style is thorough, thoughtful,
 curious, creative. I often work by TDD and prefer to do so. I love pairing and
 knowledge sharing. I take pride in the work I do and dislike lazy engineering.
 I prefer simplicity and elegance of design over excess. I like to keep it fun!

TECH: python, unix, bash, java, lisp, elixir/erlang+otp, aws, nginx, docker etc.
SKILLS: debugging, scripting, CICD, learning, teaching, pairing, creativity etc.
INFLUENCES: Julia Evans; 2600; Douglas Hofstadter; The Pragmatic Programmer etc.
PROJECTS: unettest.net; acrossthecountryin90days.com; jordandashel.com/sicp etc.