# Jordan Hawker > Staff Frontend Engineer at LinkedIn Location: Hayward, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jordanhawker Experienced Staff Frontend Engineer with a passion for open-source, engineering excellence, frontend application architecture, performance optimization, and user-centric design. Please don't call me without setting up an appointment. GitHub: elwayman02 ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer - Frontend + UI @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Developer Advocate: Tech Lead for UI Developer Experience for Enterprise Platforms Created client infrastructure for AI-driven features powering multi-page integrations leveraging GraphQL & realtime events Re-architected 46 packages into yarn workspaces, reducing Commit to Publish by 97% & CI build times by >50% Upgraded 70+ addons and 3 applications from Ember 3.0 to Ember 4.12 over 5 years Led team of 7 engineers in framework upgrades and drove company-wide rollout through multiple partner teams Advisor for org-wide TypeScript adoption, provided active support & guidance to working group Administered quarterly developer satisfaction surveys, driving 30% improvement over 3 years Hosted technical brownbag sessions for enterprise org for 2 years, doubling the number of sessions from previous years ### Co-Founder / Executive Producer @ Tilted Table Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 Producing a weekly Twitch stream featuring both physical and digital tabletop games Networking with tabletop industry partners to create relationships and coordinate sponsored content Marketing and building a community around our content ### Senior JavaScript Engineer @ Twitch Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Maintained 3-year-old application, upgrading from Ember 1.12 to 2.14 over 1.5 years Optimized site performance, reducing sitewide latency by 20% in 3 months Designed latency tracking architecture, user idling detection system, and centralized data tracking service Built draggable mini player, game sales features, and redesign of the site’s channel page Led experiment to compare load times for Ember & React applications on mobile devices Architected early version of a React application, bootstrapping a bespoke framework from scratch Won first company-wide Hackday designing a feature to celebrate anniversaries for content creators ### Quality Control Expert @ Karat Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Remote Reviewed technical interviews for accuracy Evaluated candidate performance ratings and checked submitted code for errors ### Expert Interviewer @ Karat Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Remote Conducted technical interviews for client companies to evaluate candidates Provided consistent interview results to create a reliable hiring process for clients ### Senior Front End Engineer @ CheckMate Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Developed a guest conversations platform for hotels to enable efficient feedback loops and improved service recovery Interfaced with the EmberJS community on a regular basis, keeping tabs on the latest framework developments Maintained a number of Ember Addons and submitted Pull Requests to keep other projects we depended on up-to-date Architected an Ember 2.x application from scratch and kept the product current with the latest Ember beta versions ### UI Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Developed responsive SPAs using EmberJS, Ember-CLI, Ember-Data, Twitter Bootstrap, etc. Worked on Yahoo's flagship ad platform, Yahoo Ad Manager Plus, a product with daily revenue of over $1 million. Maintained an internal fork of Twitter Bootstrap for twelve production applications across the Advertising & Data Organization. Integral member of several award-winning hack projects within the company. ### Software Engineer @ Monsanto Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 Develop web apps for Monsanto internal users and clients using JavaScript, jQuery, Underscore, Backbone, Twitter Bootstrap, RequireJS, SlickGrid, and other open-source JS libraries backed by Java/Swing/Hibernate services. ### Associate Web Developer @ EchoBands, LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 • Launched the beta website for a startup company in the digital music industry • Employed design skills using Adobe Photoshop to improve page layout and graphics • Assisted lead developer with implementation of main website as we geared up for launch ### Project Manager (Student Consultant) @ Infobright Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Lead team of students consulting with the company on a seven-month project Develop marketing plan to increase adoption of database product's community edition ### Graduate Student @ University of Illinois Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Master's in Technology Management College of Business ### Student Consultant @ Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Work as part of a team of students consulting with the business Design marketing plan to improve the visibility and income of venue as a rental space ### Graduate Programmer @ National Center for Supercomputing Applications Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 - Utilized tele-immersion technology with the Image Spatial Data Analysis (iSDA) group translate their camera calibration project from Visual C++ to a Linux Makefile - Converted the project executable to an object library https://isda.ncsa.illinois.edu/drupal/users/jhawker2 ### Student Consultant @ CITES Help Desk Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 - Provided high quality customer service by solving computer malfunctions and virus problems - Resolved issues with University services such as email, passwords, and wireless network connections ### Student Programmer @ ILLINOIS GENETIC ALGORITHMS LABORATORY Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 Adapted existing website to AJAX using Google Web Toolkit Created new GWT composites to construct the website from reusable modules ### Student Programmer @ National Center for Supercomputing Applications Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Updated database projects and implemented interface changes using Google Web Toolkit for JavaScript conversion Adapted Java code using Eclipse development framework Studied basic Python language and debugged existing code Operated independently from a remote location without continuous supervision ### Intern @ TRACE PHOTONICS, INC Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 Developed skills using the Pro/ENGINEER CAD design program Created virtual casing design to be used for project demonstration ## Education ### M.S in Technology Management Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### B.S. in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### H.S. Diploma Illinois Math and Science Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jordanhawker - Portfolio: http://www.JordanHawker.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/jordanhawker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jordanhawker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12