What I optimize for
A “theme park” developer experience.
Developers should be able to focus on solving customer problems, not repetitive tasks, red tape, or mysterious local-environment failures.
Platform Engineering • DevEx • Infrastructure as Product
I build internal platforms developers love to use.
I’m Jordan Davidson, a hands-on platform engineering leader in Utah. I turn fragile deployment paths, local-dev friction, and tribal operational knowledge into systems teams can trust — so developers can focus on shipping value instead of fighting the machinery.
GCP + Kubernetes platforms
CI/CD and developer tooling
Full-stack web
Startup CTO experience
Pattern
Turn projects into products
Build reusable machinery so the next service, environment, or pipeline gets easier instead of merely done.
Range
From code to clusters
Full-stack product work, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, local development, and production operations.
Experience
I turn messy engineering systems into paved roads.
Across startups, banks, and product companies, my work has usually lived at the seams: CI/CD, infrastructure, local development, deployments, secrets, observability, and incident process. I like finding the fragile parts developers keep tripping over and turning them into tools, workflows, and platforms people can trust.
Made fast-moving engineering workflows safer and clearer.
Built CI/CD tooling, deployment automation, secret workflows, Kubernetes/GCP infrastructure, and oncall-bot, an AI-assisted incident workflow that helped resolve 40 infrastructure issues in one week.
Created reusable AWS infrastructure and CI/CD patterns.
Helped move infrastructure from a cowboy-style setup toward Terraform-backed standards and self-service delivery workflows.
Reframed DevOps as platform engineering.
Stabilized inherited systems, architected EKS migration, onboarded ArgoCD, and developed Cue-based configuration management.
Built a bootstrapped product platform from the ground up.
Owned product and technology choices across frontend, backend, local development, Kubernetes delivery, and onboarding workflows.
Made local development and delivery safer.
Led migration work across Kubernetes, Python 3, typed Python, CI/CD, branch deploys, and integration instrumentation.
Built the developer platforms behind large-scale local environments.
Designed Kubernetes-backed developer environments, platform CLIs, logging infrastructure, certificate automation, registry caching, and tools that helped teams create and operate service stacks.
Operating philosophy
My work is about making improvement repeatable.
I’ve spent my whole career trying to make processes better.
Contact
Want to make development feel less broken?
If your organization needs stronger platform engineering, better developer experience, or calmer infrastructure delivery, I’d love to talk.