Joel Bixby
Staff Software Engineer at Vetcove
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Bixby is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling production systems, now based in Des Moines, Iowa. He’s been a founding engineer at Revel where he designed the original AWS infrastructure, tooling, and coding practices, and has repeatedly taken systems from early stages to robust production — most notably helping Venmo scale from 1M to 10M users. Joel has deep hands-on experience in performance, reliability, and integrations across startups and high-traffic consumer services, and he brings a pragmatic focus on observability and remediation under peak loads. Currently at Vetcove, he continues to drive architectural decisions and ship major product capabilities, combining startup agility with proven operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Iowa State University
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Github Skills (36)
python10
django10
api10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
infinite-scroll9
api-blueprint9
api-documentation9
flask8
puppet8
bitcoin8
cryptocurrency8
parallax8
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jwbixby/react-native-signature-capture
May 2017 - Apr 2019
A simple modular component for react native (iOS) to capture a signature as an image
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years
reactreact-nativesignatureios-nativeios
jwbixby/apistar
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
apipythonframeworkfastapipython-3
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