Jordan Malik Holmes

Senior Platform Engineer at PayPal | ex-Twilio

PayPal

Salt Lake City, UT · MT (UTC-7)

4+ years experience

Columbia University

English

Advising

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Overview

I've spent 4 years on platform engineering - first at American Express, now at PayPal. Shipped 15 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.

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Advice on platform engineering
Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Questions about platform engineering
Working sessions on Kubernetes

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Requests to fix your code for free
Generic networking requests

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills

BazelGoKubernetesCSSobservabilityBackstage

AdvisingOpen to advising

closes in 3 months

Office hours for students choosing a first job: platform engineering and CSS

Topics: platform engineering, Backstage, observability
Format: Formal advisor role
Terms: Paid
Capacity: A few async reviews a month
Best for: First-time founders

4 years of platform engineering. One call a month or async reviews.

Salt Lake City, UT · remote OKkubernetesbazelcss

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Experience

Senior Platform Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present
PayPal · 9 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
- Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 38 a week to 3.
- Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 24% in two quarters.
- Moved 84% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Platform Engineer
Sep 2024 - Jan 2026
Twilio · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Salt Lake City, UT
- Wrote the Bazel service that now handles 27 million requests a day.
Platform Engineer
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
American Express · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Salt Lake City, UT
- Wrote the Backstage service that now handles 84 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from developer platform

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling platform engineering.

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Education

Columbia University
BA, Computer Engineering
2018 - 2022

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