Jordan Sanders
Software Engineer at RWX
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJordan Sanders is a platform and infrastructure software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across startups and mid-size companies. Now at RWX after four years at Dagster Labs, Jordan has deep AWS integration experience—contributing to widely used open-source projects like moto and Dagster by improving service mocks, CloudFormation support, and ECS/Athena integrations for safer local testing and orchestration. He brings a pragmatic data- and testing-focused approach from roots as a data analyst and technical writer, which shows up in thorough tests and clear infrastructure abstractions. Based in Chicago, Jordan balances technical rigor with a collaborative mindset and an eye for developer experience improvements. Outside of work he’s an avid runner and college basketball fan who unwinds cooking pasta and walking his very fluffy dog, Noodle.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Economics Political Science Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts Economics Political Science Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (23)
docker10
boto10
data-pipelines10
pytest10
amazon-ecs10
python10
testing10
dockers10
aws-cloudformation10
aws10
amazon-s310
aws-ecs10
aws-s310
data-pipeline10
s3-bucket10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:9 releases, 603 reviews, 291 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jordan primarily focused on developing and testing data pipelines within the Dagster orchestration platform, contributing enhancements and bug fixes related to integrations with AWS services, particularly S3, CloudWatch, Athena, and ECS. Their work involved implementing features such as mocking AWS resources for local testing, integrating with Athena for querying and data loading, and building a more robust ECS client to run tasks. The user's contributions included writing extensive tests to ensure the reliability and functionality of these integrations, involving significant interaction with AWS services, and addressing dependencies.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
getmoto/moto
May 2019 - Nov 2021
A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS infrastructure.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 5 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed significantly to the `moto` library, focusing on extending AWS service mocking capabilities. Their work included adding support for custom AMI IDs in EMR, implementing limits on SQS list queue responses, and improving the accuracy of ECS RegisterTaskDefinition mocks. They also addressed CloudFormation support, including updates for VPCs, Subnets, and IAM Roles, while incorporating `Fn::Sub` and `Fn::ToJsonString` functions.
awsbotoec2s3
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