Joey Wilhelm
Senior Software Engineer at Affirm
Lakewood, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Wilhelm is a Senior Software Engineer with over two decades of professional experience and a 13-year focused track record delivering reliable, secure systems across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on backend engineering—evidenced by contributions to Microsoft’s Open Source Management Portal and deep work on authentication and API robustness—with leadership in architecture, mentoring, and engineering culture. At companies like Pinwheel and GoDaddy he built cross-cutting libraries, instituted security and open-source programs, and cut developer onboarding from days to hours. Joey is fluent in Python and Go, has driven PCI, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, and introduced company-wide standards for testing and CI/CD that raised long-term engineering rigor. Based in Lakewood, Colorado, he’s passionate about practical open source engagement and building tooling (like vulnbot) that surfaces security risk and boosts team productivity.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development, Web Development at Spokane Colleges
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Github Skills (24)
back-end-development10
django10
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
javascript9
apidoc9
python9
excel9
django-rest-framework9
api9
django-models9
foreign-keys9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/opensource-management-portal
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Microsoft's monolithic, opinionated Open Source Management Portal enabling enterprise scale self-service powered by the GitHub API 🏔🧑💻🧰
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 18 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on fixing and improving the codebase's functionality. This involved correcting error messages, refining imports, and refactoring code related to authentication strategies. The contributions also included updating API references and adding type assertions to various routes, indicating a focus on code quality and maintainability. These changes suggest a backend development role, working with code that handles authentication and API endpoints.
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godaddy/tartufo
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
Contributions:5 releases, 145 commits, 13 PRs in 2 years 6 months
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