Joe Chavez
Consultant, Medi-Cal Enterprise Systems Modernization Division
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Chavez is a seasoned software engineer and consultant with over 25 years of experience and more than a decade in modern cloud-native and DevOps practices, currently leading incremental modernization of California’s Medicaid systems. He blends hands-on implementation with process and technical leadership—applying microservices, Kubernetes, Kafka, APIs, infrastructure-as-code and data mesh—to replace legacy mainframe functionality with scalable, observable services. A certified Scrum Master and past founder/CTO, he pairs enterprise delivery experience from NASA-caliber projects to gaming and startup products with classroom teaching and nonprofit STEM advocacy. Based in Reno, Joe is notable for translating deep systems-level expertise (from C++ and Java server architecture to modern CI/CD pipelines) into pragmatic, stakeholder-focused solutions that emphasize security, performance and evolvability.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of California, RiversideM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at California State University-Fullerton
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (111)
github10
admob10
git10
xamarin-mac9
xamarin-ios9
bitrise9
google-mobile-ads9
xamarin-android9
aws-route539
xamarin8
uwp8
image8
xamarin-forms8
google8
ruby7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gitizenme/chaosofzen
Feb 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
gitizenme/spitzer
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 42 PRs, 69 pushes in 5 months
jplspitzerscienceipacastronomy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.