Summary
Joe Kaufeld is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling, currently transitioning from individual contributor roles toward engineering management. Based in Indianapolis, he’s led API design and internal tooling at SpotOn that moved millions daily, authored an open-source Snowflake testing library that saved $53k/year, and founded an OSS committee to open-source internal projects. He’s an experienced educator who designed and taught advanced Python, Django, SQL, and capstone projects at Kenzie Academy, and has a track record of improving processes from code review to release lifecycles. Pragmatic and community-minded, Joe combines hands-on architecture and automation skills with a passion for mentoring and leaving systems — and the people who use them — better than he found them.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Systems at Ball State University
English, python, javascript