"Gets it done" is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Jordan. Of the numerous students/co-ops/new employees I mentored or trained at OHRI, Jordan was a definite favourite. Despite joining the web department with minimal background in JS and no knowledge of TypeScript or React, he was able to build features and fix issues right out of the gate, learning the required languages and technologies at breakneck speed. He immediately proved his value, to the point that I jokingly called him my "lackey" for our first 3 months working together: he took the entire burden of tedious and nitpicky features off my hands while he got more comfortable with our tech stack, freeing me up for more architectural tasks. After a short time, he was creating his own architecture and small applications, and rapidly shipping code. In one particularly memorable example, he built the UI for an essential content section in the app in 1/4 of the time I estimated, all with very readable and reusable code. He was able adapt to anything I threw at him. I started him on backend integration testing, then throughout our time working together saw him successfully adapt to work on frontend UI code, "state" storage, CSS/SCSS styling & layouts, backend routing, SQL/ORM (TypeORM) coding, data migrations, database creation and management (Postgres), authentication, REST API development and maintenance, AWS infrastructure, continuous integration, and virtually every element of a modern web stack. Jordan's development knowledge has a vast breadth, but also a specialization and particular talent for backend server development and REST API creation. After almost a year of working on all layers of the CANImmunize web app, we shifted him to his own codebase - a core backend server for managing, storing, and synchronizing users' account data and medical records across CANImmunize applications (both mobile and web) and environments (both frontend and server). He successfully maintained and expanded it as required for the remainder of our time working together, fixing bugs and adding features with an impressively short turnaround time - sometimes hours for what was expected to take days - while concurrently performing high-quality work on numerous other projects spanning mobile, web, database, server, and infrastructure. Jordan is also the best duck ("if you can't solve a problem, explain it to a rubber duck") you'll ever find in the dev world. If you're stuck on an issue, just telling Jordan about it will nearly always solve the problem, almost as if by magic. He knows exactly what questions to ask, what to suggest (which is always knowledgeable and relevant), and how to actively listen in a way that almost across-the-board leads you to a solution…when he himself doesn't have the answer out of the gate. A rare and beautiful gift that turned many painful exercises in hair-pulling frustration into simple, elegant fixes. Working with Jordan has overall been a very positive experi

"Gets it done" is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Jordan. Of the numerous students/co-ops/new employees I mentored or trained at OHRI, Jordan was a definite favourite. Despite joining the web department with minimal background in JS and no knowledge of TypeScript or React, he was able to build features and fix issues right out of the gate, learning the required languages and technologies at breakneck speed. He immediately proved his value, to the point that I jokingly called him my "lackey" for our first 3 months working together: he took the entire burden of tedious and nitpicky features off my hands while he got more comfortable with our tech stack, freeing me up for more architectural tasks. After a short time, he was creating his own architecture and small applications, and rapidly shipping code. In one particularly memorable example, he built the UI for an essential content section in the app in 1/4 of the time I estimated, all with very readable and reusable code. He was able adapt to anything I threw at him. I started him on backend integration testing, then throughout our time working together saw him successfully adapt to work on frontend UI code, "state" storage, CSS/SCSS styling & layouts, backend routing, SQL/ORM (TypeORM) coding, data migrations, database creation and management (Postgres), authentication, REST API development and maintenance, AWS infrastructure, continuous integration, and virtually every element of a modern web stack. Jordan's development knowledge has a vast breadth, but also a specialization and particular talent for backend server development and REST API creation. After almost a year of working on all layers of the CANImmunize web app, we shifted him to his own codebase - a core backend server for managing, storing, and synchronizing users' account data and medical records across CANImmunize applications (both mobile and web) and environments (both frontend and server). He successfully maintained and expanded it as required for the remainder of our time working together, fixing bugs and adding features with an impressively short turnaround time - sometimes hours for what was expected to take days - while concurrently performing high-quality work on numerous other projects spanning mobile, web, database, server, and infrastructure. Jordan is also the best duck ("if you can't solve a problem, explain it to a rubber duck") you'll ever find in the dev world. If you're stuck on an issue, just telling Jordan about it will nearly always solve the problem, almost as if by magic. He knows exactly what questions to ask, what to suggest (which is always knowledgeable and relevant), and how to actively listen in a way that almost across-the-board leads you to a solution…when he himself doesn't have the answer out of the gate. A rare and beautiful gift that turned many painful exercises in hair-pulling frustration into simple, elegant fixes. Working with Jordan has overall been a very positive experi

"Gets it done" is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Jordan. Of the numerous students/co-ops/new employees I mentored or trained at OHRI, Jordan was a definite favourite. Despite joining the web department with minimal background in JS and no knowledge of TypeScript or React, he was able to build features and fix issues right out of the gate, learning the required languages and technologies at breakneck speed. He immediately proved his value, to the point that I jokingly called him my "lackey" for our first 3 months working together: he took the entire burden of tedious and nitpicky features off my hands while he got more comfortable with our tech stack, freeing me up for more architectural tasks. After a short time, he was creating his own architecture and small applications, and rapidly shipping code. In one particularly memorable example, he built the UI for an essential content section in the app in 1/4 of the time I estimated, all with very readable and reusable code. He was able adapt to anything I threw at him. I started him on backend integration testing, then throughout our time working together saw him successfully adapt to work on frontend UI code, "state" storage, CSS/SCSS styling & layouts, backend routing, SQL/ORM (TypeORM) coding, data migrations, database creation and management (Postgres), authentication, REST API development and maintenance, AWS infrastructure, continuous integration, and virtually every element of a modern web stack. Jordan's development knowledge has a vast breadth, but also a specialization and particular talent for backend server development and REST API creation. After almost a year of working on all layers of the CANImmunize web app, we shifted him to his own codebase - a core backend server for managing, storing, and synchronizing users' account data and medical records across CANImmunize applications (both mobile and web) and environments (both frontend and server). He successfully maintained and expanded it as required for the remainder of our time working together, fixing bugs and adding features with an impressively short turnaround time - sometimes hours for what was expected to take days - while concurrently performing high-quality work on numerous other projects spanning mobile, web, database, server, and infrastructure. Jordan is also the best duck ("if you can't solve a problem, explain it to a rubber duck") you'll ever find in the dev world. If you're stuck on an issue, just telling Jordan about it will nearly always solve the problem, almost as if by magic. He knows exactly what questions to ask, what to suggest (which is always knowledgeable and relevant), and how to actively listen in a way that almost across-the-board leads you to a solution…when he himself doesn't have the answer out of the gate. A rare and beautiful gift that turned many painful exercises in hair-pulling frustration into simple, elegant fixes. Working with Jordan has overall been a very positive experi