Summary
Joe Sullivan is a seasoned senior software engineer with 13+ years building and shipping web products, from browser extensions with over a million daily users to large-scale editor tooling. He led engineering for Shutterstock Editor, guiding the product out of beta and managing teams to deliver polished, production-grade experiences. Joe combines front-end expertise (HTML5, JavaScript, Backbone) with back-end and data skills (MySQL, MongoDB, mapReduce), and a history of tackling creative projects like in-browser music recording using the Web Audio API. Currently at Indeed, he brings both hands-on coding and managerial experience to complex client-facing applications. His background in music and statistics informs a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product decisions and UX. Outside core roles he’s shipped notable open web experiments and extensions, showing a long-standing appetite for practical innovation.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Economics, Economics, Statistics, Music, Economics, Economics, Statistics, Music at University of Virginia