Joel Stimson
Angel Squad Member at Hustle Fund
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Stimson is a senior full-stack software engineer in Seattle with ~15 years building high-velocity, early-stage and scale-up systems across backend, infrastructure and customer-facing integrations. He’s delivered large-scale systems—live-migrating 14 million customers and a billion records with zero downtime, designing high-throughput Kafka consumers and scaling APIs to tens of billions of requests per month—while driving SOC-2 and GDPR compliance to unlock enterprise revenue. Equally comfortable in TypeScript, Ruby, Go and Scala, Joel focuses on operational reliability, performance tuning and pragmatic architecture choices (AWS, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Postgres, Elasticsearch). He excels at translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear business and customer outcomes, often acting as the primary technical contact for sales and security reviews. Outside core engineering he invests in the local startup ecosystem as a Hustle Fund Angel Squad member and organizer, combining technical depth with investor-minded product intuition.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Ruby Programming, Certificate, Ruby Programming at University of WashingtonBA, Physics, Astronomy, BA, Physics, Astronomy at Whitman College
English, German
Stackoverflow
2,432reputation
117kreached
80answers
10questions
Github Skills (158)
postgresql10
databases10
sap10
apptentive10
javascript10
browser10
ionic10
sql10
hana10
data-mapper10
database10
sap-hana10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
electron10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apptentive/scold
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
rubocophound
stim371/uncoil
Nov 2011 - Jan 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 1 push in 9 years 4 months
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