Joel Taddei
Sr. Backend Engineer at Zapier
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoel Taddei is a senior backend engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable Python/Django services and mentoring teams, currently focused on Zapier Tables. He combines hands-on backend architecture and test automation—evidenced by contributions improving test coverage for the widely used xhtml2pdf library—with product-minded ownership from running his own startup, Metior.us. Joel’s background teaching backend and data science courses and directing curriculum shows a knack for translating complex technical concepts into practical learning and robust systems. Based in South Carolina, he blends engineering craftsmanship with customer-facing support and growth responsibilities, making him equally comfortable shipping features or improving QA rigor.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Architectural Studies, B.S, Architectural Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
python, c#, javascript, java, ruby, php, golang, elixir
Stackoverflow
237reputation
5kreached
3answers
5questions
Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
html-pdf10
python10
pdf10
pdf-generation10
html-to-pdf10
unit-test10
test-automation10
e-mail6
gmail6
emberjs6
django-forms6
github6
django6
javascript6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
xhtml2pdf/xhtml2pdf
May 2016 - May 2016
A library for converting HTML into PDFs using ReportLab
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joel's contributions center on enhancing the test coverage for the `xhtml2pdf` library. They added unit tests for the `tables` and `util` modules, focusing on functions like `_width`, `_height`, `getBorderStyle` and methods of the `TableData` class. This included testing border styles, padding styles, and data handling within tables. The user's work directly increases the robustness of the `xhtml2pdf` library.
pdfwkhtmltopdfreportlabpdf-generationconverting
taddeimania/impactjs-macethrow
Feb 2013 - Feb 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 23 days
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