I’m Joe.
I turn messy, complex problems into software that actually ships. Self-taught. Ruthless pragmatist. I learn whatever I need to, wherever I need to.
No CS degree, no bootcamp. I learned to code because I wanted to build things and nobody was going to do it for me. That impatience turned into a career across healthcare, marketplaces, and AI.
codedojoe.
Code for the craft. Dojo for the discipline and respect I hold for it. Joe because that's my name. Show up, train, get better, repeat.
My real skill isn’t the code—it’s asking the right questions, working well with the people around me, and knowing who to talk to when I don’t have the answer.
The whole picture.
I don’t just think about the component. I think about the system, the user, the team’s velocity, and whether any of this actually solves the problem.
Always moving.
Right now I’m deep in AI-assisted development—less scaffolding, more judgment. The tools are changing fast. The taste has to stay ahead.
Here’swherethatshowedup.
Every stop taught me something different. Wantable taught me ownership—I was the only senior frontend for nearly five years. Zumper taught me scale at a million monthly users. Little Otter and Hazel taught me what it means when the product actually matters to someone’s health.
Hazel Health
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Shipped an end-to-end attribution system that gave the business its first visibility into partner-driven conversions.
Identified critical UX gaps, built initial implementations to validate the need, and drove the work to become a core company goal.
Little Otter
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Authored 30+ AI agent specifications across a Next.js monorepo, taking AI-assisted development from unusable to near-complete output.
Built conversion tracking under fundraising pressure, pivoting from a 3-week timeline to rapid delivery.
Built monitoring for business-critical workflows that had zero alerting.
Zumper
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Redesigned a building detail page that increased tour requests 6x per session.
Diagnosed systemic component entanglement across a 1M+ MAU codebase and implemented org-wide architectural boundaries.
Drove accessibility remediation under legal pressure, contributing to reducing active lawsuits to effectively zero.
Wantable
Senior Frontend Engineer
Built a design system that powered the entire marketing site and enabled non-technical staff to publish landing pages without engineering.
Still in production 4+ years after departure.
Sole senior frontend engineer for nearly 5 years; mentored a junior engineer to mid-level in 2 years.
Butbuildingaloneonlygetsyousofar.
Mitobyte
I started Mitobyte because I wanted to find other people who were obsessed. Not just interested in code, but the kind of people who stay up late because they can feel they’re close to something.
Building is technical, sure. But what actually drives it is wanting to solve a problem with someone. Writing code is solitary. Shipping something that matters almost never is. Mitobyte is the room where those people find each other.
When someone in the room ships something fearless, it raises the bar for everyone else. That’s the whole point—we grow off each other.
SometimesItrytowritedownwhatI’velearned.
AndsometimesIjusteatpizza.
The Pizza List
I’ve loved pizza since I was a kid. Not in a cute way—in a serious, opinionated, will-argue-about-crust way. Here are some favorites from my running list.