Joel Shepherd
System Architect at Roubler
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJoel Shepherd is a system architect and hands-on engineering leader based in Queensland, Australia, with over a decade building scalable web and cloud-native systems. At Roubler he rearchitected an MVP to solve major performance and cost issues, enabling 10x user scale while lowering hosting expenses and helping secure acquisition through successful technical due diligence. He spans the full stack—TypeScript/Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Angular, React Native—and is experienced with Docker, AWS serverless patterns, and test automation. Joel has also stepped into senior management roles, covering CTO duties and guiding teams through architecture and delivery trade-offs. Known for turning messy prototypes into production-grade platforms, he combines pragmatic engineering with a clear focus on cost, performance, and business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Queensland
Stackoverflow
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339reached
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Github Skills (65)
typescript-definitions10
firefox-addon10
webextension10
firefox10
browser-extension10
typescript10
chrome-extension10
chrome10
redux9
redux-middleware9
typesafe9
functional-programming9
oauth9
dts9
js8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joelshepherd/ecs-cloudformation
May 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
joelshepherd/graphql-temporal
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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