Joel Kraft
Self Employed
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Kraft is a full stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building user-focused web applications, currently contributing at eBay and maintaining freelance projects through his portfolio site. Skilled primarily in JavaScript across React, Vue, Node, and Postgres, he has built high-throughput analytics tooling, accessible dashboards, and server-side systems that handle millions of interactions daily. A former educator at Treehouse, Joel pairs practical engineering with teaching experience—using AST parsing and automation to improve code quality and course workflows. His background in physics and liberal arts, plus hands-on roles from libraries to enterprise SaaS, gives him a pragmatic, interdisciplinary approach to solving product and UX challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Liberal Arts, Physics, Literature, Film, Ceramics, 3.92, Bachelor's of Liberal Arts, Physics, Literature, Film, Ceramics, 3.92 at University of Missouri-Kansas City
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
datetime10
datepicker10
datetimepicker10
mutate7
backbone7
nodejs6
amazon-ec26
amazon-web-services6
jquery6
forloop6
regex6
javascript6
google-apps-script6
creative-commons5
css5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tracygarden/tracygarden.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
joelkraft/time-off-requests-express
Dec 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 25 pushes in 10 months
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