Los Angeles, CA
801-310-6438
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I’m Joseph, a Software Engineer with 13 years experience. I’m fueled by continued learning, sharing knowledge, and creating safe, healthy, and supportive workplaces. I’ve worked with historic cultural institutions, startups, magazines, a record label, artists and more.
Away from the keyboard, you’ll find me in my pottery studio, in the kitchen, goofing with my dogs, on a ski lift, or lost in a book store.
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Work Experience
January 2021 to July 2024
Roles & Responsibilities
Org & Culture
- Developed & stewarded the “Herb Garden”, our psychological safety & mental health working group, providing confidential 1-on-1 peer support sessions, running workshops like Active Listening & Non-Judgemental Questions, coordinating & mentoring other Herbalists, supporting new hires, and crafting a DEI-focused workplace satisfaction survey.
- Conducted technical interviews, helping to grow the company from 18 to 30
Project Delivery
- Worked closely with design teams (both internal & external), improving collaboration workflows from the wireframe phase through final QA. This included coordinating on design systems & content schemas, estimating potential features, and enforcing design document best practices.
- Maintained an Agile project tracker in Zenhub, overseeing detailed work estimates, projected timelines, sprint planning, and backlog grooming to ensure project health and velocity.
- Implemented the "Feature Champ" model, delegating project management on a feature-by-feature basis to ICs, fostering ownership, skill development, and team collaboration
- Led teams of 2-6 engineers, (composed of both internal ICs and subcontractors) providing mentorship, conducting code reviews, identifying growth opportunities & goals, and fostering a collaborative, sustainable, and psychologically safe work environment.
- Worked directly with stakeholders, refining objectives and aligning engineering efforts with both internal business goals and those of our clients
- Pragmatic feature prioritization, advocating for simple, effective solutions while keeping an eye on tech debt, budget burndown, and the longer-term vision of the project
Engineering
- Delivered tooling for clients, including CMS customizations, data synchronization, A/B testing capabilities, SEO optimizations, and user behavior tracking via tools like GTM
- Led architectural decisions from project blueprinting for greenfield projects to developing strategies for the resolution of technical debt & incremental migration to improved architecture in legacy codebases
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for deployment, reporting of code quality metrics & benchmarks, and project safety