Joey Orlando
Founding Engineer at Archestra.AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Orlando is a founding engineer and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building full-stack, data-driven systems and leading teams at companies like Grafana Labs and CircleCI. He has a strong backend focus—contributing to open-source projects such as Grafana OnCall—alongside hands-on work in frontend, data engineering, and infrastructure across high-traffic microservices. Joey’s background spans startups and enterprise environments, from co-founding a creative agency to engineering large-scale data pipelines and dbt models at McKinsey and GrowFlow. He pairs a research-rooted mindset (PhD-level training in biochemistry) with pragmatic product delivery, rapidly adopting new languages and domains when needed. Based in Montreal, he now channels that blend of curiosity and execution into early-stage product and platform work at Archestra.AI.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology at York College of PennsylvaniaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at McGill University
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Github Skills (23)
api-rest10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
django10
api10
rest-api10
postgresql9
telegram8
slack8
alerts8
grafana8
shell6
woocommerce-rest-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/oncall
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Developer-friendly incident response with brilliant Slack integration
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:131 releases, 1928 reviews, 85 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily contributed to the back-end of the Grafana OnCall project, focusing on features related to alert group APIs, Telegram permalinks, and mobile app configurations. They implemented changes to the alert group models, serializers, and tests to include Slack and Telegram permalinks in the public API responses. They also made adjustments to the plugin, addressing configuration errors and improving the readability of error messages. Additionally, the user addressed linting and formatting issues across several files.
oncallalertincident-responseoncall-scheduleslack-bot
joeyorlando/self_driving_car
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:84 commits, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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