About.

I'm Jordan Evatt — a platform engineer, hopeful entrepreneur, and lifelong hacker. I created Evatt Labs as the home for my software work and side projects.

A little about me - I've been using computers since my first Apple IIe and 486 DX2 66mhz PC and gaming since I discovered an Atari and then got my first NES. I got my first rush of coding when I discovered I could write msdos batch scripts and hand edit config files of the games I was trying to install from my 3.5" and 5.25" floppies and learned how to debug my scripts and Windows 3.0 issues. I discovered Linux in 1997 or so, when I found a multi-distro CD box set that had Redhat 2.0, Debian 2.0, Slackware, and something else that I can't remember - all around the kernel 2.0.30 era. I very fondly remember the first time I got a basic XFree86 desktop with the "X" cursor and nothing else to display for the first time, and when I got my PCMCIA modem to connect to Netzero dialup internet. All the "good old days" of the internet - Napster, AOL, AIM, ICQ, and IRC - are very, very fond memories of a time before time.

Anyway, I have a BS in Computer Science and 20 years of professional experience as a software and systems engineer. My career has taken me through automotive defect management, a print shop, a custom end to end marketing tracking framework, a K-12 health education platform, a sports superfan conglomerate with its own social media ecosystem, an SEO marketing SaaS company, and for the last 9 years, a healthcare enterprise where I work as a senior platform/cloud engineer. In every role, I have been a "jill of all trades" multi disciplined engineer, able to ramp up quickly in any unfamiliar coding language or tech stack and debug and solve problems in complex systems and become a core contributor.

What drives me is building things and figuring out how they work under the hood, and then figuring out how to break them and harden them so they can't be broken. I've spent most of my career writing and optimizing code, automating enterprise data workflows, and connecting systems together; and I still get that same rush when a build compiles or a new service comes online for the first time. I'm also neurodivergent (autistic and ADHD), and AI tooling has been a genuine game changer for how I work and build. I've been able to more clearly think in "workstreams" and it's helped organize my thought patterns and learn how to compartmentalize better. That's the whole thesis behind AI/CI/CD/ADHD — AI as a focus multiplier, CI/CD as externalized discipline, ADHD as the reason both matter to me as much as they do.

When I'm not building things, you'll find me listening to trance music, watching anime, or diving into whatever new rabbit hole has caught my attention.