Jordan Cooper
People-orientated full stack developer
About
I'm a Senior Software Developer with 5+ years of experience engineering accessible, performant web applications across TypeScript, Angular, React, NodeJS, and NestJS.
I currently work at iQualify, where I focus on end-to-end platform architecture - from microservices and real-time messaging to WCAG 2.1-compliant UI overhauls that support nationwide learning at a tertiary level. Before software engineering, I spent years across operations, telecommunication provisioning, and programme coordination.
Away from work, you will usually find me tinkering with or flying down a trail on a mountain bike, dialling in a single-origin Aeropress brew (Flight Coffee or Kōkako), or playing a card game (either Dutch Blitz or 5 Crowns).
Experience
Dec 2021 to Today
Currently building and improving features of our learning platform which enables small businesses and large technical institutes across New Zealand to learn at their convenience.
Angular • MongoDB • NestJS • NX • Typescript • Storybook • MaterialUI
Jun 2021 to Oct 2021
An intense fifteen week software development bootcamp covering foundational to advanced technical skills, as well as, effective teamwork in different projects each week that simulated a real-world work environment.
React/Redux • Express • SQLite • HandlebarsJS • Git • Agile • Interpersonal Communication
Side Projects
Jan 2024 to Apr 2025
A CRUD app to keep track of your favorite coffee roasts and the recipes you used to brew them. With that record, you can pick up a roast you've had in the past and get the perfect brew. I've keep things simple; with an Angular front-end and an express back-end. I have plans on rebuilding the same app with SvelteKit to explore the differences.
Angular (Stand-alone components) • Express • MongoDb • MaterialUI
May 2022 to Apr 2025
A very simple Angular app to explore different number base systems. Made out of curiosity and a want to practice deployment. As of April 2025, this has had a re-write with the latest v19 Angular.
Angular (Stand-alone components) • PicoCSS
Sep 2021
My final week-long project at Dev Academy. In a group of six, I focused largely on Redux and communication between our server and front-end. It's the most fun I've had frantically hacking at making a Twitter clone from scratch! A real highlight was our implementation to achieve "real-time" feeds which we dubbed "scuffed web-sockets".
React • Redux • SASS • Express • SQLite • Auth0
Apr 2021 to Nov 2021
Create pixel art in your GitHub contribution graph! This was my first bigger personal project. Written in vanilla HTML, CSS and JS to challenge the cliche create-react-app. I'm planning on revisiting this with the goal of re-writing to be solely client-side based and then getting it deployed.
HTML5 • CSS • JS
Feb 2021 to Today
I have and continue to make mini projects, complete courses and follow tutorials aimed at getting exposure to things that either interest me or I need to further hone my craft.