Joe Van Dyk
Chief Technology Officer at Crowd Cow
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Van Dyk is a seasoned technology leader with 18 years of experience building marketplace, e-commerce, and fulfillment platforms, currently serving as CTO of Crowd Cow in Seattle. He combines hands-on engineering roots—from early programming roles and embedded simulation work at Boeing—to strategic product and platform leadership at startups and scale-ups. At Crowd Cow he leads development of the core marketplace and fulfillment systems that tie producers to consumers, drawing on prior CTO experience at Tanga. Comfortable across full-stack and systems-level challenges, he also has practical open-source exposure from his time on Boeing’s Open Source committee. His dual academic background in computer science and management underpins a pragmatic approach to scaling engineering teams and operational platforms.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science BA Management, BS Computer Science BA Management at Seattle University
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Github Skills (200)
linter10
rack10
html10
background-processing10
static-code-analysis10
visualization10
css10
contentful-api10
frontend10
rubocop10
ruby10
dry-rb10
activerecord10
performance-optimization10
coercion10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
joevandyk/monkeycharger
Nov 2007 - Oct 2008
Contributions:12 commits in 11 months
Crowd-Cow/print_server_rpi3
Apr 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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