Joe Karlsson
Senior Developer Advocate
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Karlsson is a Senior Developer Advocate with 12 years of hands-on software engineering and developer relations experience, currently helping teams adopt CloudQuery’s cloud data tooling. Based in the Twin Cities, he blends developer-focused content, technical POCs, and cross-functional collaboration to turn product features into practical, adoptable solutions. Joe’s background spans developer advocacy at MongoDB, SingleStore, and Tinybird as well as front-end engineering at Best Buy, giving him a rare mix of large-scale e-commerce performance experience and cloud-native data expertise. He’s an engaging communicator and instructor—formerly a full-stack JavaScript bootcamp instructor—who scales developer education from workshops to docs and demos. Colleagues know him for translating complex cloud and SQL workloads into clear playbooks and for a playful, people-first persona that surfaces in his “cloud whisperer” GitHub bio.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mounds View High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Gustavus Adolphus College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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airbyte10
script-fu10
spotify-api10
security10
gcp10
sudoku10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
devleague/js-graph-traversal
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 5 months
javascriptgraphsgraph
JoeKarlsson/night-out
Dec 2015 - Nov 2020
A real time interactive coordination to help you and your friends find a place to go tonight.
Contributions:14 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
placereactmeteornightjavascript
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