Joe Scharf
Principal at DBSnapper
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Scharf is a fractional CTO and principal with 25+ years of experience helping startups and PE-backed companies scale engineering teams, product delivery, and go-to-market execution. He specializes in adopting AI development tools and coding agents to cut feature delivery times by 40–60% and accelerate time-to-market, often shipping applications in hours or days that once took months. As first employee and VP of Engineering at SendGrid, he helped grow ARR from $600k to $65M, and later led product and operational turnarounds that unlocked multi-fold revenue and enterprise traction. He founded DBSnapper, a platform engineering tool for secure CI/CD database snapshots, and continues to build practical developer tooling while embedding new workflows into teams until they stick. Joe combines deep technical roots in embedded C/C++ with an MBA-led business lens, making him equally at home in technical due diligence, revenue forecasting, and hands-on engineering. Based in Boulder, he mentors early-stage founders and has repeatedly translated operational improvements into measurable growth.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Entrepreneurship and Finance, MBA, Entrepreneurship and Finance at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of BusinessBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
French, Latin
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
content-management-system10
cms10
hugo10
static-site-generator10
blog-engine10
go10
fastest10
esp82669
react9
rserve9
obsidian8
arduino8
testing7
markdown7
zero-configuration7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joescharf/tap
Jan 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
dbsnapper/homebrew-tap
Apr 2022 - Jul 2025
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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