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CV -- Jordan Blake

Location: Berlin, Germany Email: jordan@example.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jordanblake-em GitHub: github.com/jordanblake-em

Professional Summary

Engineering manager with 10 years in software delivery: 5 years as an IC (backend and platform) and 5 years leading teams of 6–12 engineers. Builds predictable roadmaps, healthy on-call practices, and clear growth paths. Partners with product and design on outcomes; keeps architecture and quality bar high without micromanaging implementation details.

Work Experience

Riverstack GmbH -- Berlin, Germany

Engineering Manager, Core Platform 2021-2025

  • Led two squads (8 engineers) owning identity, billing integrations, and internal developer tooling; improved deployment frequency from bi-weekly to multiple releases per week with feature flags and smaller batches
  • Ran quarterly planning with product: capacity for reliability work, explicit SLIs/SLOs for auth and payments paths, and blameless postmortems with tracked follow-ups
  • Hired and onboarded 6 engineers; introduced structured 1:1s, IC/EM dual-track expectations, and promotion packets aligned to a public engineering ladder
  • Partnered with security and compliance on SOC2-style controls: access reviews, secrets rotation, and audit-friendly change records without blocking delivery
  • Coached tech leads on delegation, RFC process, and cross-team dependency negotiation during a monolith-to-services migration (incremental strangler pattern)

Beacon Analytics -- Remote (EU)

Senior Software Engineer → Tech Lead 2016-2021

  • Backend engineer on event ingestion and query APIs (Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka); became tech lead for a team of 4 owning the pipeline reliability
  • Cut p99 ingestion lag during peak load by redesigning batching and backpressure; documented runbooks and on-call rotations
  • Mentored junior engineers through design docs and pair programming; supported first EM hire by documenting team rituals and backlog hygiene

Projects

  • eng-health-dashboard (Internal) -- Lightweight weekly snapshot of DORA-style metrics and incident trends for leadership readouts
  • ladder-samples (Template) -- Example growth narratives and competency examples shared with the engineering org

Education

  • MSc Computer Science, Technical University of Munich (2016)
  • BSc Software Engineering, University of Edinburgh (2014)

Skills

  • Leadership: Hiring, performance cycles, 1:1s, org design for small/medium teams, stakeholder communication, conflict resolution
  • Delivery: Agile/lean practices, roadmapping with product, OKRs, incident response, SRE basics, technical debt budgeting
  • Technical fluency: Distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines at a review level; comfortable reading architecture docs and RFCs
  • Tools: Jira/Linear, Grafana, PagerDuty-style on-call, GitHub/GitLab, Terraform (conceptual); strong written documentation habits