About Jordan Rivera
I'm a product engineer with about eight years of experience building web applications. I like owning a feature from the first conversation with users to the dashboard that shows whether it worked.
Lately I've focused on applied AI: assistants and search features that are grounded in real data, evaluated before they ship and honest about what they don't know.
I work remotely from Uberlândia, Brazil, and do my best work in small, senior teams where engineers talk to customers.
Focus areas
- End-to-end product features in TypeScript and Python
- AI features grounded in real data, with evaluation and a human hand-off
- Fast, accessible interfaces that work well with a keyboard
- Small, frequent releases backed by tests and feature flags
Skills
Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Python
- SQL
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- Tailwind CSS
- Web accessibility (WCAG)
Backend & data
- Node.js
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- REST APIs
- Background jobs
Applied AI
- LLM integration
- Prompt design
- Retrieval and grounding
- Evaluation sets
Practices
- Automated testing
- CI/CD
- Feature flags
- Observability
Education
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Example University · Porto, Portugal
Sep 2014 – Jul 2018
- Final project: a mobile app for sharing cycling routes, built by a team of four.
Certifications
Accessible Web Design
Example Academy · Oct 2022
Applied Machine Learning Fundamentals
Example Institute · Jun 2023
Languages
- Portuguese
- Native
- English
- Fluent
- Spanish
- Conversational
Beyond work
- Long-distance cycling along the Atlantic coast
- Film photography and darkroom printing
- Volunteering at a weekend coding club for teenagers