About Jordan Bettis
Jordan Bettis a computer programmer with a specialty in web development and ecommerce. After spending several years in subcontracting relationships, helping clients use web technologies to streamline their business processes and access new markets, he noticed that many clients were running their web services using legacy software which was poorly‐designed and difficult to maintain. This cost them money in maintenance and increases in the cost of new features. It also aggravated their staff and alienated their customers, who had to contend with unreliability and security problems.
Beginning in 2008, he created HAFD Consulting to begin offering his services directly to clients, with a focus on providing whole‐process migration of “liability systems” to newer technology stacks. He considers it insufficient to merely replace an old mess with a new one. His interest is in leveraging best‐practices in requirements gathering, architecture, code structure, and documentation to ensure that systems he creates will be flexible and robust assets for his clients well into the future.
His principal professional experience is in the Python and PHP languages on the GNU/Linux platform. He also has an interest in a wide variety of other open source languages and technologies. He enjoys writing software in the Ada language, for instance, which primarily used today in aerospace and transportation, although he uses it to write Unix software. He uses Asterisk to experiment with Internet Telephony, as well as R and Fortran to satisfy his interest in statistics. He went to UIC, where he began writing his papers in LaTeX. He is now working on an open‐source project to modernize the LaTeX and make it more usable on the web.
Mr. Bettis was born in Springfield Illinois. He moved to Chicago in 2001 to attend university. While in school, he had an internship at the Economic Information Analysis division of the State of Illinois, where he wrote software for and developed interest in statistical computing. He is an avid bicyclist and occasionally volunteers at the Working Bikes cooperative.