Joel Watson
Sacramento, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoel 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.
9 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
javascript10
ios10
electron10
material-components10
browser-extension10
server-side-rendering10
vuejs310
material-design10
vue-component10
vue10
android10
quasar-framework10
android-application9
mobile-application8
network-analysis8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joelwat/quasar2-template
Jun 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 881 PRs, 1099 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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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