resume.json

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    "name": "Jordan Fowler",
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    "summary": "Technologist with a bias for action. I'm able to talk to people as well as machines. A focus on business understanding and applications of technology which enables smarter decision-making, increased revenue, and/or reduced costs.",
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      "name": "Headwater",
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      "position": "Co-Founder",
      "startDate": "2020-01-31",
      "summary": "Headwater is building a state-of-the-art platform for quantitative trading in cryptocurrency markets. By focusing first on reliable data streams and optimized execution algorithms, we are now confidently opening up our core technology to the wider community of quant traders. We provide a secure and scalable cloud-based architecture to write and run your own strategies.\n\nTech Stack:\n\n• Terraform: provisioning on Google Cloud\n• Kubernetes: container orchestration and fully integrated with our microservice architecture\n• Bigquery: data warehousing entire trade history from multiple exchanges\n• Postgresql: application state w/ heavy use of JSONB\n• Neo4j: modeling Ethereum blockchain in a graph structure\n• Redis: microservice job queues, pub/sub, and caching\n• Go backend: REST/GraphQL APIs and distributed microservice architecture integrated with Kubernetes deployments for automatic pod scaling\n• Javascript VM: integrated into Go backend for runtime scripting capabilities\n• React: frontend fully integrated with backend via Websockets",
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      "summary": "Overseeing the Cyndx Platform. Getting people and systems talking and working together in each of these technologies/functional areas:\n\nDevOps\n• AWS: EC2, RDS, Elasticache, etc.\n• CloudFormation & Terraform for integrating AWS services in our stack\n• Kubernetes (AWS Fargate), Docker, & Docker Swarm\n• GitLab CI/CD\n\nData Science\n• Deploying algorithms optimized for production\n• Dask for distributed computing (Python)\n• Pandas, Numpy, and related modules\n\nData Engineering\n• AWS Glue, S3, ECS/Fargate\n• PySpark (Python)\n• Postgresql\n\nBack-end Engineering\n• Ruby, Rails, Sidekiq, ActionCable\n• GraphQL\n• Neo4j Graph Database\n• Elasticsearch\n• Redis\n\nFront-end Engineering\n• Angular\n• React",
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      "summary": "Lead the product vision and development team. Building the future of Information Security as a Service. Focused on delivering the following to Fortune 1000 companies at scale:\n\n• Platform APIs to deliver core information security services to enterprises\n• Secure mass file processing, storage, and search capabilities\n• Digital rights authorization, management, and watermarking of files in transit\n• Granular access control of file tree for viewing, downloading, uploading, and editing of files\n• Activity tracking and reporting of user to data interaction\n• A myriad of third-party API integrations including: Salesforce, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive, and more",
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      "summary": "Built and sold Instalead (@instalead) a SaaS product:\n• Providing guided automation tools for lead generation on social media\n• Educating salespeople on how to use platforms like Twitter & LinkedIn for social selling\n\nConsulting and partnerships:\n• Building products people love\n• New business & product development\n• Working in-depth with designers, software developers, business developers, marketers, and investors \n• Adding value by establishing innovative new products in underserved niche markets",
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      "summary": "• Worked with a cross-functional team of ten people\n• Led all technical aspects of the operation\n• Helped build a robust engineering team\n• Completely refactored the code making it stable and scalable",
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      "summary": "• Team of four left MySpace amidst layoffs to found a new social network\n• Raised a round of venture capital ($1M)\n• Built the Altly product first, which dabbled in pseudo-anonymity and publishing to specific groups of people\n• Google+ launched and sucked the air out of Altly\n• Pivoted the brand and product\n• Built Anybeat product which was later sold",
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      "summary": "• Worked directly for the CTO of MySpace Music\n• Part of the engineering team tasked with building stealth projects at MySpace\n• Built a new fully-featured profile builder & widget platform called Project Burn: https://www.google.com/amp/s/readwrite.com/2010/08/15/myspace_planning_big_stealth_project/amp/",
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      "summary": "Built and sold Seedling: a cloud-based e-commerce and content management SaaS platform.\n\nIndependent consultant and website hosting for many San Diego clients, including (not limited to):\n\n  • Digitaria\n  • MJD Interactive\n  • Graham Downes Architecture",
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      "summary": "• Rapid prototyping in Ruby on Rails\n• Agile and test-driven development\n• We built secure document management and editing for Directives at Dept. of Defense",
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      "summary": "Worked with SF City Impact to deliver thousands of meals to residents of low-income housing in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco.",
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  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Jonny Mack",
      "reference": "Jordan is one of the best people I’ve worked with. In addition to his strong technical expertise, he excels at building collaborative relationships with cross-functional team members that lead to improvements in product, process, and team cohesion. For as long as I’ve known and worked with Jordan (almost 10 years!) he has continued to grow in numerous ways, whether it’s learning a new programming language or business model, or through personal development. His passion is contagious and will make whatever team he’s on better."
    },
    {
      "name": "Lex Alexander",
      "reference": "Jordan has a passion for building resilient software systems and leading engineering teams. He is one of the rare talented individuals that is able to brilliantly create and execute on all levels. Every time I’ve worked with Jordan it has been a pleasurable experience and I’ve always learned a great deal. His humility and ability to deal with complex issues on a technical and managerial level makes him an invaluable asset to any team he’s on. "
    },
    {
      "name": "Adam Bouck",
      "reference": "Jordan is one of those rare engineering talents that literally can do it all. Front-end, back-end, dev-ops, architecture, APIs, database design, and pretty much anything else (if he doesn't know it he'll pick it up incredible fast). The first time I sat down and wrote code with Jordan I was blown away by how quickly he could make sense of a codebase and dive in to add new features or fix bugs. Jordan is great at leading and mentoring other engineers. He's down to earth and easy to work with while at the same time able to take charge and make decisions."
    },
    {
      "name": "Andrew Arrow",
      "reference": "Jordan Fowler has crazy good skillz and I purposely spell skills with a z to emphasize this. I met Jordan at MySpace and we later did a Venture Backed startup (Anybeat) together. When I say I met Jordan at MySpace I don't mean \"on myspace\" I mean actually at MySpace HQ when we both worked there. I can't wait to see what Jordan does next in his career, and wish to recommend him publicly here on linkedin. (He also introduced me to the music of led zeppelin but that's another story.)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kirk Gale",
      "reference": "Jordan is problem solver with a bias for action and leadership. He is uniquely capable of bringing expertise and a propensity to experiment to all aspects of a company: marketing, system architecture, features and user experience, team organization, and development best practices. I personally learned a great deal from Jordan; he is an excellent communicator and teacher. He invests time in analyzing processes and roles, which in turn make his team empowered and effective. I would not hesitate to work with Jordan again in the future."
    },
    {
      "name": "Brandon Brown",
      "reference": "Jordan is one of the more brilliant developers I have met. His thought process and ability to visualize complex problems made him an invaluable asset to the team. He also has a knack for leading and always provided an amazing vision that everyone was happy to be on board with. I would be more than happy to work with Jordan again in the future."
    },
    {
      "name": "(Jazz) Jaspreet Garcha",
      "reference": "Jordan is a great developer and I had the opportunity to work with him at CapLinked for over 1 year. He has great vision, which allowed him to lead the build out an api, automated many of tasks that help stream line workflow and mentored developers. Jordan would a be great asset to any team, and I highly recommend him. "
    },
    {
      "name": "Peter Sellis",
      "reference": "I've worked with Jordan on a bunch of projects across multiple companies. None of them were straightforward, but with Jordan I was able to work in cycles that were significantly quicker in terms of iteration and results than anyone else. He's an excellent developer; it's his ability to distill complex business goals into understandable technical milestones that is really impressive."
    },
    {
      "name": "Justus Luthy",
      "reference": "Working with Jordan was a great pleasure.  He had a strong understanding of the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and of web development in general.  Always eager to expand his knowledge and challenge himself, he often challenged others around him to implement new ideas and approaches themselves.\r\n\r\nAlthough we only worked together for a limited time I would welcome the opportunity to work with him again in the future."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nick Zadrozny",
      "reference": "Not only is Jordan a highly productive developer, he's passionate about leveraging innovative new techniques and getting things done the right way. We've worked on a number of projects together and I would definitely work with him again in the future."
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