$ whoami
Jordan Reyes-Park
full-stack engineer · 10 years · Seattle, WA · he/him
$ cat experience.log
- 2022 – now
Staff Engineer @ Relay (remote)
Distributed systems for a payments API doing ~40M events/day. Lead the queue team; cut p99 latency from 840ms to 210ms.
- 2019 – 2022
Senior Engineer @ Northbeam (Seattle)
Built the analytics ingestion pipeline and the internal developer platform. Two teams of eight relied on it; I was the only on-call, so I made it boring.
- 2016 – 2019
Engineer @ Cascade Labs (Seattle)
First product team. Learned to ship, to estimate, and to write docs people actually read.
$ ls ~/projects
relay-queue
Lightweight message queue in Go. Exactly-once semantics without the exactly-once ceremony.
inkline
Headless CMS with a Markdown-first backend. Your content is a git repo; the editor is a view.
tinybench
Benchmark harness that makes micro-benchmarks honest. Detects noisy machines, skips them, tells you why.
pg-doctor
CLI that reads your slow-query log and says the thing you needed to hear.
$ git log --oneline writing/
- a1f9c2e2026-07Why we moved our queue off S3 (and you probably should too)
- 9d20b412026-02Postgres is enough (most of the time, at this scale)
- 4c77e102025-11The case for boring deploys
- b8e33f72025-06On-call is a product. Treat it like one.
$ ./about --full
Korean-American, raised in Portland, currently in Seattle. Writes about infrastructure, reads about systems thinking, maintains the open-source tools above. Previously spoke at CascadiaJS and GopherCon. Looking for: staff/principal roles on durable infrastructure, or interesting problems that need a patient engineer.
$ echo $EMAIL -> [email protected] || github.com/jordanrp || LinkedIn