Joe Essey
Full Stack Developer at creeksidecabingames.com
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Essey is a Full Stack Developer and engineering leader with 10 years of experience building web and game software across Rails, JavaScript, Java, and Unity. He has led teams from hands-on development to executive leadership—founding a one-person game studio and rising to VP of Engineering at Popmenu—while focusing on creating trusting, high-performing teams. Joe has a track record of modernizing delivery practices, introducing testing and CI, and shipping customer-facing platforms for restaurants and insurance marketplaces. Based in Atlanta, he blends product empathy from early-career customer-facing roles with deep technical chops, often stepping into both code and people challenges. Notably, he pairs startup agility (running all operations of a solo studio) with scaled-team leadership experience, making him comfortable across the full lifecycle from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Community College of Allegheny CountyBS, Information Science, BS, Information Science at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (45)
prototypes8
twitter8
async8
javascript7
airtable7
capacity7
gdscript7
closures7
whiteboard7
game-development6
documentation6
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-dynamodb6
sql6
dynamodb6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ReverendUnk/FF12-IZJS-Job-and-Party-Randomizer
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 days
memberspartyjobsrandomly
jressey/defords-pick
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Find the best game currently being broadcast
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
gamebroadcast
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