Summary
Joe Spataro is a founder, coach, and seasoned QA leader with 11 years of experience building reliable software quality processes and scaling teams across startups and healthcare. He has led QA and automation efforts (Python, Playwright, Selenium, TestRail) to accelerate releases and reduce regression time while also standing up global support operations and SLAs that improved response rates. Based in Seattle, Joe parlayed a personal crisis into The Steel Shift Protocol, a practical 12-week coaching system that helps working dads reclaim health, presence, and performance in 20-minute blocks without extreme diets or extra apps. He combines hands-on technical rigor with empathetic leadership—coaching engineers and executives to healthier routines while delivering measurable product quality improvements. Notably, Joe has experience launching automation frameworks and support centers internationally, showing an uncommon mix of operational scale and human-centered coaching.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Science Degree, Information Technology; Network Administration, Associate in Science Degree, Information Technology; Network Administration at Pittsburgh Technical College
English