Joe Wass
Head Of Engineering at Clear Skies
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Wass is an experienced software engineering leader with 15 years building and operating web-scale services for scholarly and enterprise communities. He led Crossref’s software development team, scaling services used by 20,000 members while pioneering Event Data and related research-integrity initiatives. Now Head of Engineering at Clear Skies and running software strategy at Pardalotus Technology, he combines product-focused leadership with hands-on technical stewardship. His background spans R&D, middleware, and client web-app development from roles at Sophos and Torchbox to mission-driven scholarly infrastructure. Based in Oxford, he brings a practical blend of team coaching, technical design, and stakeholder-aligned delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who turns complex interoperability and data-integration challenges into reliable, maintainable systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Hons Computing Science, BSc Hons Computing Science at Oxford Brookes University
Github Skills (154)
cms10
hugo10
rest-api10
user-manual10
api10
rest10
event-data10
content-management-system10
graph10
blog-engine10
go10
fastest10
user-data10
open-access9
terraform9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
CrossRef/lagotto
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 43 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
scholarlyeventstracking
CrossRef/chronograph-RETIRED
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:159 commits, 108 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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