Joe Cotellese
Co-Founder at NEXTGRES
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Cotellese is a seasoned product and engineering leader with over two decades of experience founding startups and turning complex technical challenges into profitable products. As Co-Founder of NEXTGRES and AppJawn, he builds practical AI-first systems—most recently a drop-in, MongoDB-compatible platform that unifies document and event data for real-time personalization. Joe has led product and engineering transformations at companies like MariaDB and AWeber, driving restructuring and go-to-market focus that moved businesses from loss to profitability. He combines strategic clarity with hands-on execution—writing production code, shipping mobile apps like ClipDish, and building backend tooling for recipe extraction and databases. Based in Doylestown, PA, he advises teams fractionally to cut dev costs and accelerate AI adoption, and quietly blends low-level systems instincts with product-scaling playbooks few founders retain.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Penn State University
Stackoverflow
21reputation
363reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (121)
lua10
automation10
hammerspoon10
macos-application10
editor10
swift10
electron10
typescript10
macos10
visual-studio-code10
objective-c10
microsoft10
irc10
javascript9
twitter9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JoeCotellese/dot-files
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
JoeCotellese/rpggame
Nov 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:89 PRs, 220 pushes, 287 branches in 8 months
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