Joe Drew
Engineering Lead Manager at Index Exchange
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoe Drew is an experienced engineering leader with 17 years of delivering scalable products and building high-performing teams across startups and mature companies. Currently an Engineering Lead Manager at Index Exchange, he has led organizations from hands-on director roles to head of engineering, designing team structures and hiring drives that scaled organizations by 20% or more. He blends deep technical chops—from C++/graphics and embedded systems early in his career to Python/Django and mobile platforms—with a talent for coaching managers and promoting engineers into leadership. Joe often embeds mindful, authenticity-based leadership practices into organizations to improve sustainability and performance, and has practical experience shipping LLM features and cross-platform mobile systems. Based in Old Toronto, he combines rigorous University of Waterloo computer science training with a track record of driving complex, cross-functional delivery at scale.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Paul Dwyer CHSHonours B.Math Computer Science, Honours B.Math Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Wattpad/sred-jira
May 2016 - Jan 2019
JIRA time spent calculation tool, primarily for use with SRED
Contributions:7 PRs, 14 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 8 months
sredjiracalculation
joedrew/hal
Feb 2019 - Jan 2022
your helpful pal
Contributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 11 months
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