Hi, I'm Jordan
I live in Ottawa, and I've been making things on the web since 1994. That year I started my first company, Transit Network, and I've been building and running my own sites ever since: more than a hundred of them, serving over three billion visitors.
Most of my working life has been about maps and data, taking enormous datasets about the planet and turning them into something a person can look at and understand. I spent twelve years doing that as a CTO, on platforms used by NASA, the World Bank and the United Nations.
These days I build my own things. Terrain you can 3D print, a dating app, tools I wished existed. When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm usually behind a macro lens, or carving real places out of wood.
- Based in
- Ottawa, Canada
- On the web since
- 1994
- Sites built and run
- 100+
- Visitors served
- 3 billion+
- Also
- Photographer
Things I make
- TerraPrinterAnywhere on Earth, as a 3D-printable model, in seconds.
- FormSnapWhole forms from a prompt, a PDF or a sketch.
- RampGeneratorColour ramps for maps, colourblind-safe by design.
- SomeoneBetterA dating app with real personality, and a match score that explains itself.
- tinymacrosExtreme macro photography, focus stacked and turned into 3D you can orbit in a browser.
- WoodmakerReal places, carved in wood on a CNC router.
Behind the camera
Away from the screen I take photographs, and every one of them is for sale: prints, licensing, whatever you have in mind. Find one you like and ask.