Joe Woodward
Senoir Backend Engineer at GitLab
United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorJoe Woodward is a senior backend engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in Ruby on Rails and currently driving backend work at GitLab. He has led teams and projects end-to-end, designing well-structured codebases, test suites, CI/CD pipelines, and complex AWS VPCs while deploying on AWS, GCP, Heroku, Render, and DigitalOcean. Comfortable across the stack, Joe pairs Hotwire/Turbo and Stimulus UI work with backend services in Elixir, Python, Node.js, GraphQL and modern front-end frameworks like React and Svelte. Known for clear communication and a proactive voice, he adapts quickly to new workflows and has repeatedly shipped a wide range of production web apps. Based in Bangkok with UK ties, he blends practical ops experience with a strong focus on maintainable architecture and developer-friendly systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (157)
fast-jsonapi10
devise10
mvc10
authentication10
rails-gem10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
html10
rails10
json-api10
redactor9
form-objects9
api9
wysiwyg9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JoeWoodward/rails-sweetalert2-confirm
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
An awesome SweetAlert2 replacement for Rails' confirmation dialogs.
Contributions:25 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 8 months
railssweetalert
JoeWoodward/JoeWoodward
Aug 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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