Joe Stead
Senior Transition Goalkeeper Coach at Derby County Football Club
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoe Stead is a UEFA-licensed goalkeeper coach and PhD researcher with 11 years of professional experience developing goalkeepers across academy, loan and first-team environments. Currently Senior Transition Goalkeeper Coach at Derby County, he has led first-team coaching at York City and FC Halifax and shaped pathway coaching roles at Leeds United and Wigan Athletic. His research at Leeds Beckett University investigates flow, block and slump states in goalkeeper performance, linking academic insight directly to individualized development plans and club methodology. A former Leeds United academy goalkeeper, he combines elite playing experience with advanced pedagogy—holding an MRes and a First Class BSc in Sports Coaching. Outside football, he has contributed back-end development improvements to the open-source Carter framework, showing an appetite for technical problem-solving and robust, user-focused systems. Practical, research-informed and transition-focused, he specialises in smoothing goalkeeper movement between academy, loans and first-team football.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Goalkeeper Performance, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Goalkeeper Performance at Leeds Beckett University
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netcore10
exceptions10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
middleware8
vbnet6
automapper6
asp-net-mvc6
wpf6
entity-framework6
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Github contributions (5)
CarterCommunity/Carter
Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
Carter is framework that is a thin layer of extension methods and functionality over ASP.NET Core allowing code to be more explicit and most importantly more enjoyable.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the core functionality of the "Carter" framework by adding new features, addressing issues, and improving existing methods. Their work focused on adding features such as query string parsing, file binding and API version configuration. They also fixed bugs and refactored code to make the framework more robust and user-friendly.
extension-methodsmit-licenseaspasp-netnet-core
JoeStead/Carter
Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
Botwin is a library that allows Nancy-esque routing for use with ASP.Net Core.
Contributions:38 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 10 months
aspnetasproutingasp-netnet-core
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