About me

Building things that matter.

I'm Jordan — a full-stack engineer based in San Francisco, originally from Vancouver. I've spent the last eight years working on products that sit at the intersection of complex technical challenges and genuine human need.

My obsessions right now are real-time collaboration systems, WebGL-based creative tools, and anything that makes environmental data more accessible. I care deeply about code that reads well, systems that fail gracefully, and UIs that get out of the way.

Outside of engineering I'm a committed amateur photographer — mostly landscape and urban decay. You'll find some of that work in the gallery.

Jordan Chen

Toolkit

Technologies I work with

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Elixir
  • Rust
  • SQL

Frontend

  • React
  • TanStack
  • WebGL
  • CSS / Tailwind
  • Web Audio API

Backend

  • Node.js
  • Phoenix
  • FastAPI
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL

Infrastructure

  • Netlify
  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Vercel

History

Where I've worked

2024–Now

Senior Engineer at Meridian Labs

Leading the platform team building developer tooling and infrastructure for AI-native products.

2021–2024

Staff Engineer at Cascade IO

Architected a real-time data pipeline serving 50M events per day. Built the design system used by 8 product teams.

2019–2021

Frontend Engineer at Vanta

Joined as employee #12. Shipped the compliance automation UI that helped close Series A.

2017–2019

Software Engineer at Wiredcraft

Delivered civic tech products for government clients across Asia. Worked in Shanghai, Nairobi, and Berlin.