Joe Wasson
Co-Founder And Lead Engineer at Avental
Puyallup, Washington, United States
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SeniorJoe Wasson is a seasoned technical leader and full-stack engineer with 14+ years building reliable, scalable systems in payments and e-commerce, now co-founder and lead engineer at Avental while also serving as Principal Software Engineer at SendOwl. He specializes in backend and platform engineering, sustainable development practices, and turning around struggling projects by building healthy teams, reducing incident rates, and optimizing long-running data pipelines. At Stripe he unified dispersed tax logic into a single service achieving five-9s uptime and cut failure-prone processes from days to hours; his pragmatic approach balances technical debt with long-term operational costs. A longtime tinkerer and open-source contributor, he has contributed firmware improvements to the popular QMK keyboard project, showing hands-on fluency from low-level firmware to distributed cloud services. Known for transparent communication, mentorship, and mob-programming-driven collaboration, he prioritizes delivering user value and high-quality code that endures. Outside engineering he produces and mixes music, bringing a creative, auditory sensibility to problem solving and team culture.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (33)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jul 2016 - Nov 2020
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 27 PRs, 41 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the firmware for open-source keyboards. Their work included fixing compiler warnings, adding support for one-hand typing with the `ACTION_SWAP_HANDS` action and configuration options, and adding default swap configs. The user also improved the one-hand support feature by adding more actions and tap keys. Furthermore, the user implemented support for the GeminiPR steno protocol and also added the TX Bolt protocol support for Stenography.
atmelavrfirmwareusbkeyboard-firmware
Talljoe/steno-dictionary
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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