Summary
Joe Wright is a Director of Engineering with eight years of hands-on and leadership experience building scalable web products and modernizing legacy platforms. He combines full-stack development fluency—Node, React, Next.js, Contentstack and SEO-driven replatforming—with a strong track record of reducing cycle time through clear technical roadmaps, agile practices, and rigorous code review. Joe excels at translating complex business and sustainability goals into actionable engineering plans while mentoring distributed teams and improving developer workflows. His background spans startups and enterprise acquisitions, from building national news networks and BI tooling to leading migrations that improve performance and monetization. Based in Carrboro, NC, he pairs an engineering BS and full-stack certification with a humanities-trained perspective in English, which helps him communicate cross-functionally and craft user-focused UX/UI solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, English 20th Century Literature, Master's degree, English 20th Century Literature at North Carolina State University
Development Engineer Certification, Full Stack Software Development Program, Development Engineer Certification, Full Stack Software Development Program at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill