Summary
Joel Reske is a founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack products across startups and larger tech teams, most recently as an early engineer at Ashby. He specializes in recruiting tech, pricing, contracts, and billing systems, and is now tackling those domains with his company Colma in San Francisco. Joel has a track record of shipping impactful features—from speeding page loads and templating systems at M.Gemi to launching serverless MVPs that cut costs and scaled operations at Homegrow. Comfortable across web, backend, and cloud architectures, he pairs hands-on coding with product sensibility and a knack for teaching and mentoring junior engineers. Outside work he’s interested in music production and often frames engineering problems through cross-disciplinary curiosity shaped by consulting, e-commerce, and startup experiences.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Computer Science Computer Science and Quantitative Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S) in Computer Science Computer Science and Quantitative Economics at Tufts University
English