Joe Torraca
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Torraca is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, production-grade systems and consumer-facing applications, currently driving platform and search initiatives at Etsy. He combines a Georgia Tech foundation in AI and HCI with deep full-stack expertise—KafkaStreams, React/Redux, Node.js and real-time ML—to design scalable pipelines that reduced fraud and cut legacy load significantly. As a former founder who sold his startup, he brings product intuition and end-to-end ownership, from architecting APIs to shipping mobile apps and maintaining 100% uptime. Known for “breaking things and fixing them,” Joe pairs hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver near real-time experimentation and observability for complex streaming ecosystems. Based in New York, he prioritizes user research-informed improvements and measurable impact across systems that serve billions of requests daily.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (53)
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
searching10
resizable10
android10
mobile10
react10
redux-devtools10
shortcuts9
sendgrid9
lightning9
aws-cloudwatch9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jvt/Heyu-Web
Dec 2015 - Dec 2024
Simple system to control a Heyu implementation through web requests.
Contributions:6 PRs, 14 pushes, 13 branches in 9 years 1 month
webrequest
jvt/Brainy-Kids
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:85 commits, 61 PRs, 92 pushes in 3 months
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