Jordan Irabor
Software engineer, musician and producer.
I'm Jordan, and I make experimental music as drunkgiantbird, somewhere between shoegaze and alternative metal, with melodic and sometimes heavy guitars. I write, produce, mix and master it myself, and I DJ under the same name. The rest of the time I build software, mostly backend systems and infrastructure, and lately tools for music too: Styx, and a DAW called Charon.
Software
- 2024
Styx
Offline semantic search across DAW projects. It indexes every session on your drives and plays bounces inline without opening the DAW. Shipped as DrunkGiantBirdStudios' first product.
getstyx.co - In development
Charon
A DAW with a plain-language layer over a conventional engine. Describe the change you want and it becomes ordinary engine operations you can see, edit or undo.
getcharon.co
Roles
- Jul 2026 – now
Co-founder & CTO, Moatify
Outbound for founders. It finds people who'd want what you're selling, reads up on them, and drafts an email.
- 2025 – 2026
CTO, Petrichor Labs
Hosting for businesses that need their data kept in Canada.
- 2025 – 2026
CTO, ConsentKeys
Login and identity for apps, with a different user ID at every app.
- 2024 – now
Founder, DrunkGiantBirdStudios Inc.
The studio company behind Styx and Charon.
- Earlier
Senior Engineer, Meltwater, PreFix, Stears, Hotels.ng
San Francisco, Austin, Lagos. Twelve years of software, most of it backend systems and infrastructure.
Music
The songs are built from a lot of layered parts. Live, a band plays them, and it gets louder than the recordings.
I play guitar, drums and keys, and I've used Ableton heavily since 2022. Drum programming is where I've spent the most time. I sample live drums at different textures, humanize the MIDI with scripts, and move hits off the metronome so they sound like a real drummer. It took about six months to get that where I wanted it and fast enough to keep up with the writing.
I mix and master my own records and do my own sound design.
