Joe Mizzi
Founder & CEO at The Bollweevils
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Mizzi is a senior engineering manager with 11+ years of experience leading teams to build scalable, production-grade software across payments, fintech, healthcare, and e-commerce. Currently at PayPal, he blends hands-on engineering leadership with strategic product and developer-experience improvements, previously driving a 10x customer scale at Casechek and major developer productivity gains at Upstart. He excels at transforming processes—cutting build and cycle times by large margins—implementing containerization and CI/CD, and fostering inclusive, high-performing teams. His background spans founding-stage to enterprise environments, pairing an MBA with an uncommon creative foundation in music composition that informs his collaborative, design-oriented approach. Known for pragmatic execution and cross-functional influence, he consistently delivers low-downtime, compliant systems in regulated industries. Outside work, his GitHub bio hints at a lighthearted side—“Sometimes my cat types for me”—reflecting an approachable leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Finance, MBA Finance at DePaul Driehaus College of BusinessBachelor of Music Music Composition, Bachelor of Music Music Composition at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (150)
api-platform10
windows10
hypermedia10
javascript10
api10
rest10
hal10
cli10
angular10
typescript10
android10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
macos10
nodejs10
flutter10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
themizzi/live-coding
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 42 PRs, 120 pushes in 1 month
casechek/aws-secrets-bundle
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Loads ENV vars from AWS Secrets Manager
Contributions:4 releases, 41 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year
aws-secrets-managerenv-vars
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