Summary
Joe Rivera is a senior information technology consultant and software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance visualization and distributed systems, currently developing seismic interpretation tools for Shell. His background blends scientific visualization, computational geometry, and GPU-accelerated processing with recent work extracting accounting microservices from a Node.js monolith into Go-based services for a crypto brokerage. Joe excels at bridging research-grade C++/Python/C# codebases and production systems—having embedded Python interpreters, enabled remote IPython kernels, and modernized complex build systems. Based in Austin, he brings deep domain expertise in volumetric rendering and large-data pipelines alongside practical experience with Kafka, SQS, and cloud-facing APIs. A pragmatic engineer, he often surfaces elegant, non-obvious integrations between scientific tooling and scalable backend architectures.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin