Joe Connolly
Founder at velixir
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
Joe Connolly is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and logistics platforms from London. He combines startup instincts—having been Director & Head of IT at ROADWAZE LTD—with production engineering roles at delivery and CDN-focused companies like Delivery Logistics and bunny.net. Joe has repeatedly focused on end-to-end systems that optimise fleet management and delivery workflows, turning complex routing and tracking requirements into practical product features. He moves comfortably between product-facing development and backend infrastructure, bringing a pragmatic, operations-aware mindset to engineering teams. His career shows a pattern of rapidly advancing responsibility in lean teams, suggesting strong cross-functional skills in product, ops, and technical leadership. Outside of obvious work titles, he brings the perspective of a founder/operator who prioritises shipping measurable business outcomes.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (46)
broadcasting9
low-latency9
ddos9
resty9
rtmp9
webrtc9
ddos-protection9
streaming9
administration9
iis9
nginx8
lua8
pan8
luajit8
pinch8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dbContext/SiteShield-OpenResty
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Advanced Layer 7 HTTP(s) DDoS Mitigation module for OpenResty ("dynamic web platform based on NGINX and LuaJIT")
Contributions:41 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ddosluajitnginxopenrestyddos-mitigation
dbContext/dbContext
Jan 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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