Summary
Joe Kendall is a principal software engineer and fractional CTO with 13+ years of professional experience and a 15-year hands-on development pedigree building web applications, interfaces, and scalable architectures. He combines deep JavaScript and frontend expertise with practical knowledge of Postgres, AWS/Terraform, and systems modernization—helping organizations from startups to Fortune 500s design tech teams, prototype products, and migrate legacy services. His background spans editorial and high-traffic publishing systems at Dow Jones/WSJ, platform work for Amazon AWS and finance clients, and entrepreneurial projects like Tap, a personal system for tracking work, time, and money. An educator as well as a practitioner, he has taught interactive design and brings a designer’s sensibility to engineering decisions, pairing creative UI instincts with pragmatic architecture.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Art, Technology, BFA, Art, Technology at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English