Joe Pelz
Software Developer at Lendesk
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Pelz is a pragmatic software developer with 12 years of experience building and maintaining SaaS back-ends, most recently leading back-end efforts at IT Glue and now contributing at Lendesk from Vancouver. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and Python systems, databases (MySQL/Postgres), and integrations with platforms like AWS and Salesforce, while also stepping into architecture, deployment, and incident debugging. Joe has progressed from junior roles to back-end lead, hiring and mentoring peers and owning the full lifecycle from design to production. His background in VFX and tooling (Python, Nuke, Maya) gives him a strong practical focus on automation and developer productivity that often surfaces as small tooling wins and pipeline improvements.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Diploma, Game Art and Design / Fine Arts, 91% GPA, Diploma, Game Art and Design / Fine Arts, 91% GPA at Art Institute of Vancouver
English
Github Skills (8)
mapper10
c-language10
diagnostics10
networking10
architecture10
security10
golang3
android3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IceBlockers/Carepal
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 20 PRs in 22 days
gameeducational-gamefibrosisandroidunity
riolet/SAM
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
System Architecture Mapper
Contributions:1 release, 1102 commits, 331 PRs in 1 year 3 months
architecturemappersystem-architecturediagnosticsnetworking
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