Joe Lafiosca
Senior Engineer at Hemlane
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Lafiosca is a Senior Engineer and co-founder with over a decade of professional software experience and roots in hobbyist computing dating back to the Apple and Commodore era. Based in Atlanta, they pivoted to full-time JavaScript and AWS work in 2016 and now specializes in React Native and TypeScript for mobile-first products. As CTO of Nuclear Pasta, Joe leads development of Coach, a mobile app aimed at helping small teams learn and improve together, blending product intuition with pragmatic engineering. At Hemlane and previous roles at Quasar Blu and IBM they drove serverless APIs, mobile apps, and integrations, often stepping into hands-on technical rescue when needed. They are an advocate for inclusive teams and amplifying marginalized voices, bringing both entrepreneurial grit and a long history of systems-level problem solving. A Georgia Tech CS alum, Joe combines deep operational experience with an appetite for accessible, team-centered tooling.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
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aws-lambda
top-1%
amazon-web-services
top-5%
amazon-dynamodb
top-5%
Github Skills (200)
amazon-cognito10
command-line-interface10
drag10
npm-package10
native-module10
aws-serverless10
serverless10
pinch10
browser10
camera10
pouchdb10
cloud-services10
solace10
sst10
nodejs10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
lafiosca/fourheadlines
Feb 2015 - Jun 2018
A Twitter meta-bot by @joelafiosca based on @TwoHeadlines by @tinysubversions
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
twitter-bottwitter-metabotmetatwitter
lafiosca/nice-lambda
Jun 2018 - Sep 2020
A nice way to make AWS Lambda handlers
Contributions:3 PRs, 10 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 2 months
lambda-functionsserverlessaws-lambdahandlersaws
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