About

Jordan Nakamura is a highly experienced Software Development Manager at Amazon, with over 11 years of relevant experience. Currently, he manages a team of engineers working on Alexa's Orchestration Engine, responsible for enabling new features in Alexa and developing code that runs the core engine of Alexa. He is working on creating a system that scales to new use cases and traffic, making him an expert in Distributed Systems, High Traffic Web Services (SOAP/REST), and web applications. Jordan has worked on several cutting-edge projects during his time at Amazon, including building services on Amazon scale, working on intelligent systems, machine learning, global selling, optimizations, mission-critical UX/BE used by several Amazon teams, atomic reusable components, and much more. He has experienced the full software development life cycle, from designing phase up to continuing to support products well after their production launch. Jordan has also worked as a team lead and manager, maintaining and driving development schedules with upper-level management and product management, mentoring younger developers, and working with external teams to deliver applications that have company-wide impact. He possesses notable skills and experience in Java, Perl, Mason, Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Spring, Hibernate, Lombok, Linux, RHEL5, Ubuntu, AWS services, and Agile methodology. Jordan holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington. He is a highly skilled software engineer with expertise in web development, machine learning, frontend, backend, and product management. He is currently looking for experienced developers to join his team at Amazon and encourages interested candidates to send him their resumes.