Jordan Harrison
Frontend-led Full-Stack Engineer
Frontend-led full-stack engineer with 4+ years of commercial development experience across React, Next.js, TypeScript and Node.js. Experienced leading a Drupal-to-Next.js migration, building data-intensive interfaces, and improving frontend tooling and developer experience. Open-source contributor building self-hosted community software and a real-time AI transcription app, using AI tooling day to day to ship maintainable products faster.
Experience
Software Developer · Charles River Laboratories
Jul 2022 — PresentRemote
- Leading the frontend of a migration from a Drupal marketing site to a decoupled Next.js architecture, building the new frontend against a JSON API backend deployed on OpenShift
- Built an internal user-management MVP with React, Fastify and CosmosDB, implementing feature flags to support progressive rollouts
- Delivered features and workflows for Apollo, Charles River's toxicology data platform, contributing to its progression from MVP to release
- Migrated frontend build and test tooling from Webpack/Jest to Vite/Vitest, reducing build times and improving developer experience
- Implemented data-intensive UI components — filtering, large tables and chart interactions — to visualise diverse scientific datasets with React and Chakra UI
- Contributed to the internal Helios design system, converting Figma designs to Chakra UI components
IT Support Officer · Glanbia Cheese EU
Nov 2019 — Jul 2022- Sole IT Administrator & Infrastructure lead for the greenfield build of a €135M facility
- Implemented physical & virtual VMWare ESX hosts, Windows virtual servers, and a secure LAN/WAN network infrastructure from scratch
Junior IT Administrator · RPS Group
Dec 2017 — Nov 2019- Supported approximately 150 users across two offices and delivered a Windows 10 rollout two months ahead of schedule
Projects
Meith
meith.dev
Building open-source, self-hosted forum software for communities that want to own their conversations, data and infrastructure. Written in TypeScript and released under the MIT licence, Meith supports migrating from legacy MyBB and phpBB boards, a typed theme and plugin extension system, and deployment across Coolify, Docker Compose and Vercel with PostgreSQL-backed storage.
VolenScribe
volenscribe.com
Architected a full-stack AI Live Transcription SaaS to close accessibility gaps at conferences. Built a Next.js/TypeScript frontend streaming audio over WebSockets to a real-time speech-to-text pipeline, delivering low-latency browser-based caption viewing and transparent green-screen (chroma-key) outputs for OBS and live-stream integration. Supabase handles authentication, session persistence, and storage.
Tutors
tutors.dev
Led a frontend rebuild of the Tutors open-source learning platform (used for remote courses at SETU Waterford), migrating to Svelte to improve runtime performance and long-term maintainability over the legacy stack. Collaborated directly with Red Hat engineers to design and ship new features, including improved course navigation and content rendering.
Community & Leadership
GDG Portlaoise
Founded and lead the Google Developer Group in Portlaoise, running regular community talks and workshops for local developers.
DevFest Ireland 2025
Organising DevFest Ireland 2025, coordinating speakers, schedule and logistics for the national community conference.
Vercel
Selected as a v0 Ambassador, sharing workflows and feedback with the wider developer community and the Vercel team.
Education
Higher Diploma in Computer Science
South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford
First Class Honours
Bachelor of Science in Network Management
Athlone Institute of Technology
Merit Grade II
Honors & Awards
Lorraine Bolger Award for Best Project 2023
Awarded best project 2023 in the SETU awards, sponsored by Red Hat, for work on the Tutors Open Source Project.