Joel Watson
Software Engineer II at Trupanion
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Watson is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with over 15 years of web development experience and eight years in recent professional roles, currently building resilient systems as Software Engineer II at Trupanion. He ships SPAs and mobile apps using modern front-end stacks (Vue3/Quasar, TypeScript, Nuxt) while also designing and optimizing back-end APIs and databases (Node/Express, PHP, MySQL). Joel has a proven track record of profiling and eliminating performance bottlenecks across client, server, and DB layers and has deployed services to AWS, DigitalOcean, and Google Cloud using Docker, ECS, and Kubernetes. He mentors junior developers, introduced team tooling like Git and build pipelines, and has bridged legacy LAMP systems to modern JS stacks—often tackling both code and ops. Based in Sacramento, he combines hands-on engineering with a Habit of learning new technologies and delivering pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Sacramento City CollegeBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University, Chico
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
javascript10
ios10
vuex10
electron10
vue-router10
browser-extension10
material-components10
server-side-rendering10
vuejs310
material-design10
vue-component10
vue10
vuejs210
android10
android-application10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joelwat/advent-of-code
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:35 PRs, 49 pushes, 36 branches in 3 years 2 months
joelwat/quasar
Jun 2021 - Jan 2024
Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time
Contributions:23 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 6 months
vue-routerjavascriptvue-componentsuser-interfacesvuejs2
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