Jordan Reeves, full-stack developer

Personal story

I started in agency frontend work, where tight deadlines taught me that elegance is what survives contact with production — not what wins a mockup review.

At Northline Digital I moved into full-stack delivery and led a migration off a jQuery monolith. That experience shaped how I think about rewrites: bounded contexts, measurable cutover criteria, and honest timelines.

Since 2022 I have worked independently with product teams in commerce, logistics, and developer tooling. I take on a small number of projects at a time so I can stay close to the code and the outcomes.

Outside client work I maintain open source utilities and write about migration patterns, offline UX, and design systems that engineering teams actually adopt.

Where I have worked

  1. 2022 — Present

    Senior Full-Stack Developer

    Independent / Contract

    Architecture and delivery for product teams in commerce, logistics, and developer tooling.

  2. 2019 — 2022

    Full-Stack Developer

    Northline Digital

    Customer-facing web applications and internal platforms. Led jQuery-to-component migration.

  3. 2016 — 2019

    Frontend Developer

    Studio Forma

    Agency work across finance, healthcare, and media. Established accessibility review process.

Technical skills

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptGoRustSQL

Frontend

HTMLCSSReactVueWeb Performance

Backend

Node.jsPostgreSQLRedisGraphQLREST

Infrastructure

DockerCI/CDAWSMonitoringLinux

Daily toolkit

VS Code Figma Git Docker Postman Storybook Chrome DevTools Linear Notion Obsidian