Joel Farris
Senior Software Engineer at Rockbot
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Farris is a senior software engineer and founder with over a decade building performant, accessible front-end experiences from his Austin-based agency to product roles at Rockbot and Microsoft. He specializes in design systems, prototypes, and production code that prioritize performance, scalability, and accessibility, bringing an operator’s mindset honed running Return Technologies since 2012. At Rockbot he’s progressed from frontend lead to senior engineer, blending startup agility with enterprise UI experience gained at Microsoft and large customers like Papa Johns. Joel’s background in radio-television-film informs his UX sensibility, making him as comfortable iterating visual interactions as optimizing delivery pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Communication Radio-Television-Film, Bachelor’s Degree Communication Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin
English
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Github Skills (25)
sanity-io9
imagemagick9
nuxt-module8
sanity8
html6
svg6
tvos6
transition6
css6
youtube6
mamp6
codekit6
youtube-api6
nuxt5
cms5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
clearhead/clearhead.me
May 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:232 commits, 165 PRs, 245 pushes in 1 year 4 months
joelisfar/jump-start-kit
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
Joel’s Web Project Starter Kit
Contributions:4 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 3 months
web-projectjavascriptproject-starter-kit
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