Joe Lepper
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Lepper is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO in Portland, Oregon, with 14 years of hands-on software engineering experience and a recent focus on founding and scaling startups from idea to fundraising readiness. A full-stack generalist fluent in JavaScript (Node, React, Next), Elixir, and functional programming, he combines deep technical craftsmanship with system design for observability and reliability. Joe has repeatedly shipped quick, pragmatic prototypes and production services using AWS, Terraform, Twilio, Clerk, and generative AI to help founders validate markets and raise capital. As a manager and coach he prioritizes people, creating processes and teams that increase delivery speed, confidence, and resilience under pressure. He also advises non-technical founders, translating business goals into practical technology choices while hunting for off-the-shelf solutions to accelerate time-to-market. Despite a dry Github quip, his work reveals a blend of curiosity, patience, and an engineer’s taste for elegant, observable systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Education/English, BA Education/English at Prescott College
Stackoverflow
201reputation
19kreached
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Github Skills (60)
gif-animation10
synthesis10
tonejs10
music10
broadway9
seek9
genstage9
playback9
computer-music9
audio9
synth9
browser8
gif8
javascript8
rabbitmq7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joeLepper/whom
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:8 releases, 41 PRs, 57 pushes in 1 month
joeLepper/dot-portfolio
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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