Joel Frederick
Senior Software Engineer at Planet Fitness
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Frederick is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of professional experience building full-stack web applications and public APIs, currently contributing to engineering at Planet Fitness after a multi-year tenure at Fetch Rewards. He brings hands-on expertise in Laravel, Vue.js, React, Unity3D, and Oculus Rift, blending web and interactive media skills that trace back to a BA in Game and Interactive Media Design. Joel has led high-traffic projects like the College Scorecard API and site, pairing feature development with DevOps and direct user support to keep services reliable at scale. His background as a freelance developer and early systems administrator means he’s comfortable owning projects end-to-end—from client discovery and architecture to CI/CD and deployment. Known as a lifelong learner, he often combines game-tech approaches with conventional web stacks to solve UX and performance challenges in creative ways. Based in Greater Boston, he balances product-minded engineering with practical infrastructure know-how and a knack for automating repetitive workflows.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Game and Interactive Media Design at Becker College
Github Skills (7)
csv-parser9
csv-reader9
csv-import9
data-import7
pdf7
open-data7
csv7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
RTICWDT/college-scorecard
Sep 2019 - Oct 2020
College Scorecard
Contributions:8 releases, 633 commits, 112 PRs in 1 year 1 month
scorecard
RTICWDT/open-data-maker
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
make it easy to turn a lot of potentially large csv files into easily accessible open data
Contributions:19 commits, 7 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
csvcsv-readerpdfaccessiblelot
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