Summary
Joel Pan is a seasoned full-stack Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput back-end systems and polished front-end experiences. Currently at Amazon, he designs and maintains scalable services (Java, Spring, AWS) that handle thousands of requests per second and also ships customer-facing pages using modern web standards. He has startup CTO experience leading product and engineering for a consumer mobile booking app, recruiting teams, and owning APIs and admin tools end-to-end. His background spans marketing-driven roles to technical delivery, giving him a strong product sensibility alongside systems engineering chops. Based in Bothell, WA, he combines hands-on coding with operational awareness—having implemented systems from RESTful APIs to DynamoDB/SQS workflows that bridge customer-facing UIs and reliable backend pipelines. Notably, he’s comfortable shifting between day-to-day engineering at scale and earlier-stage technical leadership where hiring, documentation, and agency partnerships mattered as much as code.
11 years of coding experience