👋 Hi, I’m Joseph

I am a Software Engineer with 14 years experience. I’ve worked as an IC, technical lead, mentor, and Herbalist†.

I’m currently working as a freelancer - do you need a website refresh? A new e-comm shop? Help understanding how to use AI in your business?

You can find me on 🐙 Github and 👤 LinkedIn, or view my 📃Resume. You can contact me at [email protected] 💌**.**

Work History (highlights)

I worked as a Senior Engineer at Sanctuary Computer for 4 years. In this time, I:

<aside> 📱 Worked on the Light Phone III, doing things like:

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<aside> 🏛️ Helped lead development for the new **Brooklyn Museum** website ****(happy 200th anniversary!). This included integrating their massive collection database with Sanity and building a performant & accessible Next.js site with hundreds of thousands of pages.

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<aside> ⏱️ Maintained and enhanced Loupe This, a timepiece bidding website powered by Stripe, Rails, and Next.js.

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<aside> 🍎 Helped to build the IoT mobile application for Mill Industries

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<aside> 💳 Led development on the developer documentation for the headless e-commerce platform Swell

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Before joining Sanctuary, I worked as a freelancer for 9 years.

In this time, I:

<aside> 💍 Made an e-commerce website for Los Angeles based jewelry company Spinelli Kilcollin, powered by Shopify, Sanity, and open-source software I built to connect the two.

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<aside> 📸 Built the technology for a 3-week holiday event with Smilebooth, hosting nearly 10,000 guests. As they made their way through the event, photographers scanned their RFID wristbands for each photo op. Upon leaving, guests were emailed a link to a private gallery with all photos for their group.

Tech included an Android app for staff, multiple React websites (in English and Spanish), and a GraphQL API server backed by PostgreSQL, and lots of other moving pieces. We had 0 errors in production 😎.

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<aside> 🎓 Taught online React courses for General Assembly

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<aside> 🌱 † What’s an Herbalist? Sanctuary computer is not a traditional agency. It’s not a traditional company, for that matter. Social equality, psychological safety, and mental health are baked into the way they operate. Work can be hard, working in a remote world can be harder. As the steward of the Herb Garden, I facilitated company initiatives and held confidential 1-on-1 meetings with coworkers to discuss how they’re feeling, how they’re growing, and what they want our company to look like.

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