Jordan Darius Dawson

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Senior Engineering Manager at HP · Payments infrastructure · gRPC, Kafka

HP
San Jose, CA · PT (UTC-8)
12+ years experience
Georgia Tech
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Based in San Jose. I lead payments infrastructure at HP. Built the experimentation framework 20 product teams use to ship changes safely. Led the migration of 28 services to Kafka. Before that: Lockheed Martin and Bank of America. Most at home with Java and gRPC. I read too many books about cities.

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Skills
JavaKafkaPostgreSQLgRPC

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Sep 2024 - Present
    HP · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Led the migration of 47 services to Kafka.
    • Shipped 13 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
    Lockheed Martin · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 5 million transactions a day.
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 81 million requests a day.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
    Bank of America · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 9 million transactions a day.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    May 2018 - Jul 2020
    Pfizer · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Grew the payments platform team from 4 to 13 engineers.
    • Built the experimentation framework 38 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jan 2015 - May 2018
    Goldman Sachs · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Jose, CA
    • Built the experimentation framework 10 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 13 a week to 1.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2026

Built with Kafka and PostgreSQL. 2444 people used it last year.

Open-source Java toolkit
2023

A small library for payments infrastructure that 311 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Georgia Tech
    BS, Electrical Engineering
    2005 - 2009

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