👋 Hi, I’m Joseph

I am a Software Engineer with 14 years experience. I’ve worked as an IC, technical & team lead, mentor, and Herbalist†. I like helping things grow.

Coming from a background in sculpture, I’ve worked with startups, historic cultural institutions, magazines, record labels, artists and more.

I have helped my clients and friends find success through pragmatic strategy, leading teams, and writing code.

You can find me on 🐙 Github, 👤 LinkedIn, ✶✶ are.na or view my 📃 Resume. Email at 💌 **[email protected] or book a time to chat 📆 here.**

Work History (highlights)

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

<aside> 🌱 Helped the company to grow:

• Stewarded company-wide initiatives based in psychological safety, mentorship, learning and mutual support
• Led teams and managed projects, working closely & transparently with stakeholders
• Created technical strategies & fostered client relationships to win new and continuing work

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

• Implementing new features across a stack that includes an Elixir API, a meteor.js dashboard, and Java + React Native OS
• Incrementally migrating the codebase from Flow.js to Typescript
• Converting the Light Phone website from Stripe to Shopify’s Storefront API

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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> 🌱 Created teams, managed projects, and shipped code - Advised on technical strategy, defined project requirements and scope to fit budgets & timeline, and built projects from start to finish

• Hired and led small, embedded product & development teams
• Built full-stack projects ranging from mobile applications, APIs, and boutique frontends

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<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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