Jordan Whited
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarJordan Whited is a Member of Technical Staff in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-performance networked systems and backend services. He blends software, system, and network engineering expertise—shipping secure core features for Tailscale (a prominent WireGuard/2FA VPN project) while previously architecting large-scale BGP, anycast, and observability systems at Twitch, ThousandEyes, and Formant. Jordan has a proven track record of moving low-level networking improvements into production (TCP SACK enabling, DERP handling, XDP/eBPF collectors) and translating robotics and ROS tooling into Go for edge deployments. Comfortable from kernel-adjacent optimizations to cloud-native services, he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that improve throughput and reliability. Notably, he implemented peer-to-peer NAT traversal tooling and a ProxyCommand-friendly port-forwarding service that bridged developer workflows and production access.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
ip10
go10
networking10
tcp10
wireguard10
security10
vpn9
2factor8
debugging8
github7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:497 reviews, 12 commits, 369 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jordan contributed significantly to the core functionality and security of the Tailscale project. They were actively involved in addressing authentication errors and enhancing the health check features. Their contributions also included enabling TCP SACK, which improved network throughput, and improving handling of DERP peer gone messages.
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jwhited/corebgp
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
CoreBGP is a BGP library written in Go that implements the BGP FSM with an event-driven, pluggable model.
Contributions:3 reviews, 58 commits, 81 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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