Joe Manley is a Founding Engineer and player-coach with 10 years of experience building and scaling product teams and engineering systems across startups and high-growth companies from San Francisco. He has repeatedly led cross-functional teams to ship measurable growth and reliability improvements—architecting a Shopify app that drove $2.5M in sales, slashing deployment and query times, and improving funnel conversion through AI-enabled workflows. Joe combines hands-on engineering (from infra and data pipelines to web and mobile growth features) with people leadership, designing career rubrics and personalized coaching for engineers. He’s launched international engineering offices, built products from MVP to customers, and now consults while helping found Pocketflows, bringing both operator grit and a data-informed, test-and-learn approach to product development.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at PSG College of Technology
Contributions:38 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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