Jordan Otomu

hey! i’m jordan. cs student at the university of houston, incoming swe intern at snap for summer ‘26. i build saas, ship content, and stay deep in finance, tech, and the news cycle. mostly i like the part where you can make something useful and put it in front of people.

started young writing game cheats in c++ and c#. somewhere between hooking memory and dodging anti-cheats i realized i actually liked the programming part — bending a system into doing exactly what you want. that’s what stuck.

i take on too much. side projects, hackathons, content — i say yes faster than i can ship. working on a sharper default-no so the things i do commit to actually get my best work.

honestly? still building. probably something at the intersection of fintech and consumer software. i’ll figure the rest out in the doing.

trenching volatile memecoin markets (yes, really). big on tv — sopranos, the wire, twin peaks (current watch), and older shows in that lane. listening to music, studying history and geography, gym, occasionally making unhinged tiktoks.

lua — from roblox. i learned to code making roblox experiences and scripts before any of it was “for my career”.

whatever the team is using. solo: typescript + react + deno or node, supabase/firebase for the backend, tailwind for ui. right now learning objective-c + swift for snap and go on the side.

see the toolbox tab for the full list — type help when you get there.

build it badly first. then read the docs. then rebuild it well. that sequence almost never fails me.

• prepping for snap — deep in objective-c + swift + uikit
• building with ai agents — mcp servers, computer-use, the new tooling around claude / gpt / gemini
• experimenting with solana trading automation on the side
• a few hackathons i keep saying yes to

cursor --dangerously-skip-permissions — no wait that was someone else.

mine: gh repo view --web. one keystroke to open the repo i’m in.