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Jordan Lee
builds fast, dependable software.

Backend-leaning full-stack engineer. I like small teams, boring infrastructure, and shipping things that don't page anyone at 3am.

→ see the work github.com/jordanlee hello@jordanlee.dev
selected work
2025

Ledger — reconciliation engine

Rebuilt a finance team's manual reconciliation process into an automated pipeline processing 40k transactions/day.

GoPostgresKafka
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2024

Fieldkit — offline-first survey app

Mobile data-collection tool for researchers working without reliable connectivity, with conflict-free sync.

TypeScriptReact NativeCRDTs
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2023

Warmline — internal alerting rewrite

Replaced a brittle cron-based alerting system with an event-driven one, cutting false-positive pages by 70%.

PythonRedisgRPC
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about

I've spent the last six years building backend systems and the occasional frontend when nobody else wants to. Most of that time has been at small startups, where "the codebase" and "the team" are usually the same three people.

I care about clear error messages, boring architecture, and code that's still readable a year later — including by me.

Outside of work I climb, read too much sci-fi, and slowly restore a 1998 road bike.

get in touch

Have something worth building?

Open to freelance projects and full-time roles where I can own things end to end.

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available for work
Addis Ababa, ETUTF-8