Joe Schnetzler
Founding Engineer at Squad
Village of Fishkill, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Schnetzler is a product-first founding engineer with 7 years of experience building revenue-generating software businesses and developer tooling across fintech, AI, and robotics. He has repeatedly turned early technical bets into companies—founding and scaling Pital & Co to over $1M in enterprise revenue, co-founding a Cosmos blockchain agency and exiting, and now serving as Engineer #1 at Squad to modernize hiring with AI. Hands-on across Deno, NodeJS, Go, Rust, and Python, Joe has deep expertise in production-grade distributed systems, LLM fine-tuning, and cryptographic blockchain infrastructure (including contributions to Cosmos IBC work and Metamask Snap). He combines full-stack engineering with product strategy, having built AI-powered hiring and investech platforms that moved models from research into live subscription products. Based in Fishkill, NY, he’s an active GitHub practitioner who prefers shipping code and learning by building—often exploring the intersection of AI and robotics beyond typical startup stacks.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Financial Analysis Honors and Economics, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Financial Analysis Honors and Economics at University at Albany
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Github Skills (145)
appwrite10
cosmos10
cryptocurrency10
serverless10
quantitative10
backend10
hosting10
firebase10
swift10
financial10
finance10
fintech10
interchain10
evm10
blockchain10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
defund-labs/defund
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
The modular liquidity hub. Trade spot assets, mint options, earn hedged yield.
Contributions:26 releases, 260 commits, 71 PRs in 1 year 1 month
financialmanagersblockchainevmweb3
mystic-lab/interaccounts
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Interchain Accounts (ICS-27) Contract for Agoric
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 42 commits in 7 months
interchain
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