Joe Cohen
Co-Founder & CTO at Draftea
Greater Mexico City, State of Mexico
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJoe Cohen is a seasoned technology leader and founder with 13 years of experience building consumer-facing web platforms and developer tooling from Mexico City. As Co-Founder & CTO of Draftea he led the launch of Mexico’s first daily fantasy sports game and continues to steer product and engineering for Spanish-speaking sports fans, backed by top-tier investors and global athletes. Previously he scaled engineering teams at Vercel and co-founded digital agency dinkbit, blending product design roots with operational leadership. A hands-on engineer and active open-source contributor, Joe has made core improvements to notable projects like Laravel and Vercel—fixing framework behaviors, routing and domain management, and improving developer ergonomics. He combines full-stack fluency (frontend redesigns to backend routing and HTTP handling) with a design background from Universidad Iberoamericana, giving him a rare product-driven technical lens. Known for pragmatic refactors and thoughtful API-level fixes, he focuses on durable, developer-friendly solutions that scale.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lic, Diseño Interactivo, Lic, Diseño Interactivo at Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México
Github Skills (30)
application-framework10
url-routing10
javascript10
domain-name10
back-end-development10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
laravel10
php10
go10
status-page10
web-framework10
http-router10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cachethq/cachet
Dec 2014 - Jul 2018
🚦 Cachet, the open source, self-hosted status page system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:207 commits, 162 PRs, 178 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to redesigning and improving the Cachet status page, including both frontend and backend modifications. They refactored the frontend by changing the font and updated the CSS and JavaScript files with code changes. Furthermore, the user redesigned the login page and added a sidebar menu and some layout fixes.
status-pagecachetlaravelstatuspagesphp
laravel/framework
Nov 2014 - Jan 2018
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe made several contributions focused on improving the Laravel framework's functionality. They added an `abort` method for handling exceptions, and implemented the `isPjax` method for request handling. The user also updated the codebase to include a timestamp casting feature for datetime objects, and fixed a cookie-related issue. These commits demonstrate a focus on core framework improvements and bug fixes.
laravelphpframework
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