Joe Cowman
Software Engineer at Dropback
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Cowman is a full-stack software engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building web and desktop applications across startups and major tech companies, including Meta and Patreon. He excels at bridging disciplines—translating product needs into clean system design, reliable front-end experiences, and maintainable back-end services—and thrives in collaborative teams. His background spans React, Typescript, Node, Python, and serverless AWS work, and he’s shipped user-facing features for high-scale products like Messenger desktop. Joe pairs hands-on development with technical communication and mentoring, having led a university capstone team and coached youth robotics. Notably, he combines production engineering experience with a formal interest in game design, bringing user-centric thinking to tooling and interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Game Design, Certificate in Game Design at University of WashingtonLiberal Arts Distinguished Diploma, Specialty Commended: Instrument Performance Diploma, Liberal Arts Distinguished Diploma, Specialty Commended: Instrument Performance Diploma at Millard North High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Github Skills (35)
react9
frontend9
js8
typescript8
javascript8
gatsby7
gatsbyjs7
line-endings7
graphql6
mdx6
docz6
user-interface6
documentation5
compiler5
typechecker5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jcowman2/react-ensemble
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Intuitive and precise control over complex animation timing for React
Contributions:110 commits, 21 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 month
animationreact
regal/about
Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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