A little introduction
Developer roots.
Platform mindset.
I’m Jordan, a platform engineer in Cheltenham with a background in building websites and a habit of getting curious about what’s underneath.
Building it. Running it. Understanding both.
My career has taken me from multimedia and web design into senior web development, and now platform engineering. That background means I think about infrastructure through the eyes of the people building on it.
At Journey, I helped build an AWS EKS hosting platform as part of a two-person team, then independently migrated 150 websites onto it. Along the way, I moved repositories to GitHub, set up Docker development environments, and helped six web developers adopt the new workflow.
These days, my work includes AWS infrastructure, Terraform, Spacelift, GitHub Actions, and monitoring. I enjoy the practical improvements: an environment that starts with one command, a deployment that needs fewer manual steps, or a staging site that cleans up after itself.
more room to build.
Outside the day job
My homelab runs on Proxmox, hosting a Plex media server and a personal Kanban board, with access through Tailscale. I’m also setting up a self-hosted wiki to give my technical notes a home.
I’ve built a question-and-answer site to support my AWS certification study. Making something is often how I get to understand it.
A winding path here
Platform Engineer
Journey · AWS infrastructure and delivery workflows.
Senior Web Developer
Journey · Websites, Docker workflows, and the move to AWS.
A career in the web
Freelance work, Pentacor Design, Langarth, Websir, Tigerfish, and Factor 3. Design, development, and plenty of learning.
Multimedia Developer
Pennant Training Systems · Training software, including a six-month assignment in India.