Joe Fitzgerald
CEO And Founder at MomentumAI
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Fitzgerald is a multifaceted technology leader and founder with 12+ years delivering platform engineering, services strategy, and large-scale transformation across the US, UK, and Australia. As CEO of MomentumAI and former Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, he blends hands-on architecture and DevOps experience with P&L and GTM leadership for businesses scaling into the $250M range. He’s known for rescuing stalled projects, building internal developer platforms treated as products, and driving CI/CD and automation practices that shift time-to-value from weeks to hours. A practical engineer at heart, his open-source contributions span dev tooling and CI/CD improvements—helping projects like Atom, Slack Go bindings, and Go editor integrations with testing and automation enhancements. He pairs an MBA and Harvard strategy training with a track record of aligning datacenter engineering details to boardroom strategy and uncommon fluency in turning services feedback into product R&D. Colleagues rely on him to unite diverse stakeholders and deliver pragmatic technical solutions under tight deadlines and budgets.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignOther; Certificate of Specialization in Strategy Strategy, Other; Certificate of Specialization in Strategy Strategy at Harvard Business School OnlineUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (49)
atom-editor10
json10
javascript10
slack-api10
coffeescript10
gomega10
electron10
testing10
autocomplete10
ginkgo10
batchfile10
appveyor10
cicd10
automation10
packer10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
maxbrunsfeld/counterfeiter
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:23 releases, 201 commits, 121 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the test suite, adding specifications and test cases for various packages within the `counterfeiter` repository. Their work involved creating and modifying tests, specifically utilizing the Ginkgo and Gomega testing frameworks. They focused on testing the core functionality of the library, including interface mocking and generating fakes, and ensured that the generated fakes worked as expected.
golangself-containedtestinggotype-safe
joefitzgerald/packer-windows
Jul 2013 - Feb 2019
Windows Packer Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:166 commits, 26 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on automating and improving the Windows Packer build process. They added and modified scripts for installing software (Chef, VMware Tools, OpenSSH, 7-Zip), configuring Windows Updates, and configuring Windows firewall rules. They also improved the build process by cleaning up files, updating tools, and incorporating conditional logic based on the Packer builder type.
vagrantvmswindowsboxvcenter
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