Joe Hudson
Senior Software Architect at Citadel Securities
Waxhaw, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Hudson is a seasoned web engineering manager with 14 years of experience building high-impact eCommerce and finance applications, currently leading web engineering at Citadel. He blends hands-on full-stack architecture with people-first leadership—favoring positive reinforcement and engineering teams that operate like families while insisting on quality, predictability, and transparency. At WalmartLabs he rebooted grocery.web using React/Redux and created tooling like smocks to enable parallel development and robust end-to-end testing. An active open-source contributor, Joe has improved widely used front-end projects such as Thorax and helped make react-chartjs production-ready, reflecting deep expertise in JavaScript frameworks and integration with libraries like jQuery and Underscore. He’s entrepreneurial too: founded InterviewBot to automate pre-screen interviews and earlier co-founded startups and products across messaging and payments. Based in Waxhaw, NC, Joe pairs pragmatic delivery skills with a track record of turning ideas into production systems that often exceed initial business expectations.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Information Systems at Appalachian State University
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
jquery10
front-end-development10
chartjs10
backbone10
backbonejs10
react10
webpacker9
webpack9
handlebars9
amd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reactjs/react-chartjs
Dec 2014 - Sep 2016
common react charting components using chart.js
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 60 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development of React components for charting within the `react-chartjs` repository. Their initial commit set up the foundation, and subsequent commits added minified files and AMD loader implementation, indicating a focus on making the components production-ready and accessible through various module systems. The user refactored the code and added new features and enhancements to improve maintainability.
chartingchartjsreact
walmartlabs/thorax
Dec 2011 - Jan 2014
Strengthening your Backbone
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:47 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the `thorax` repository, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to the core functionality of the framework. Their commits demonstrate a focus on improving the framework's ability to interact with other javascript libraries, specifically jQuery, Zepto, and Underscore.js. Furthermore, the user addressed specific issues, such as improving event handling, DOM element binding, and ensuring the correct behavior of the framework with modern backbone.js versions.
backbone
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