Summary
Joan Shaho is a Senior Software Engineer based in Philadelphia with 7 years of hands-on experience building scalable web and cloud-backed systems. At SeatGeek she progressed from Software Engineer to Senior Engineer, contributing to backend services and full-stack features using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and AWS. Her background includes academic research and teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, where she automated pipelines for CNN-based astronomy data processing and supported scalable cloud computing coursework. As an intern at InSpirAVE she boosted search relevance and user satisfaction through algorithmic improvements and integrations with external APIs, demonstrating a data-driven approach to product engineering. Comfortable across languages from Java and Python to JavaScript and C, she combines algorithmic thinking with practical UX-minded tooling. She traces her curiosity to hands-on problem solving as a child, a trait that still drives her preference for debugging, optimization, and building elegant, reliable systems.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania