Joe Howard
Staff Engineer at Kraken
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Howard is a Staff Engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web and serverless backends using Python/Django, TypeScript, and AWS, currently shaping platform-level work at Kraken. He has led complex projects from national CMS deployments and multi-vendor automotive APIs to grid-scale demand-response integrations, combining pragmatic engineering with strong testing and deployment discipline. Joe routinely simplifies legacy systems—reducing downtime and tech debt through targeted refactors, Docker streamlining, and library maintenance—and has delivered measurable business impact like faster inventory tracking and higher online sales. He’s passionate about climate and social-impact tech, enjoys contributing to Home Assistant for smart-home automation, and advances his craft by attending DjangoCon and PyWebCon. Ambitious to move toward an architect role, he blends hands-on implementation with cross-team leadership and a knack for quickly adopting new technologies.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Sophomore, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Sophomore at The University of Texas at Dallas
English
Stackoverflow
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45kreached
23answers
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Github Skills (89)
python10
spotify10
discord-js10
django10
youtube10
music10
user-experience10
discord10
discord-bot10
flexibility10
dynamodb9
lambda9
voice9
cms9
aws-sdk-js9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JoeWHoward/JoeWHoward.github.io
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
JoeWHoward/Greenhouse-Master
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 9 days
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