Joey Nelson
Senior Engineering Manager at Kentik
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Nelson is a senior engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams across observability, payments, and SaaS. He has led distributed organizations of 40+ engineers to deliver UI platforms, data visualization, and core backend migrations (MySQL to ClickHouse), while shipping features used across mobile, web, and API surfaces. Known for turning engineering processes into repeatable SDLC and compliance practices (SOC 2, SOX, GDPR), he pairs hands-on technical experience with people-first management that emphasizes growth and onboarding. Joey moves fluidly between product, design, and infrastructure concerns—often driving component libraries, UX patterns, and platform capabilities that accelerate multiple product teams. Based in Chapel Hill, he blends startup scrappiness (two-person dev teams, early prototyping) with enterprise-scale delivery and a knack for making complex systems audit-ready.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Radio Television & Film, BA Radio Television & Film at University of North Texas
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Github Skills (40)
papertrail10
war9
webhooks7
sdk7
leancloud7
redirect6
nodejs6
php6
credit6
iphone6
jquery6
objective-c6
javascript6
post6
mysql6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
uservoice/uservoice-service-hooks
Jul 2012 - Feb 2018
Contributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 7 months
wlrs/joeynelson.com
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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