Summary
Joe Sadowski is an experienced engineering leader with 12 years of driving large-scale cloud and platform transformations for developer-facing products. Currently leading the Vercel Marketplace engineering team, he previously built webhook/versioning and remote functions capabilities at Stripe and led Square’s ambitious migration of ~800 microservices to AWS. He has deep hands-on expertise in cloud architecture, developer experience, and platform tooling—having scaled multi-account AWS strategies, infrastructure-as-code, and developer productivity programs that cut migration times from months to weeks. Joe combines product sensibility with engineering rigor, having served as both lead product manager and manager of sizable engineering organizations while negotiating major cloud contracts and saving tens of millions in cloud costs. He’s comfortable shifting companies from monoliths and on-prem to cloud-native patterns and is known for raising developer satisfaction through practical automation and clear “golden path” guidance. Based in San Francisco, he blends startup grit (co-founding CityVoter) with enterprise-scale delivery and a track record of turning complex migrations into repeatable, measurable programs.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer