Joey Zwicker
Head Of Forward Deployed Engineering at Baseten
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoey Zwicker is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 11 years of experience building data-centric, distributed systems and AI infrastructure from startup to enterprise scale. As co-founder of Pachyderm, he helped create containerized data versioning and reproducible pipelines, work that continued into leadership roles after Pachyderm’s acquisition by HPE where he ran global AI solutions, go-to-market, and customer-facing engineering. He now leads Forward Deployed Engineering at Baseten, helping customers push high-scale model inference into production and optimize mission-critical AI workloads. Joey blends hands-on technical writing and developer advocacy—he contributed substantial documentation to the flagship pachyderm/pachyderm repo—with strategic GTM and product leadership. Based in San Francisco, he sits on the AI Infrastructure Alliance board and has a Stanford MS in Management Science & Engineering, reflecting a rare mix of systems engineering, product strategy, and community-building. Colleagues describe him as a builder who moves complex research-grade tooling into reliable, auditable production.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University, College of EngineeringMaster's Degree Management Science and Engineering, Master's Degree Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, College of Engineering
Github Skills (3)
restructuredtext10
documentation10
sphinx9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pachyderm/pachyderm
Nov 2014 - Oct 2020
Data-Centric Pipelines and Data Versioning
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:17 reviews, 697 commits, 109 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Joey's contributions primarily focused on creating and organizing documentation for the Pachyderm project. They added and edited multiple documentation files related to getting started, troubleshooting, and the structure of the project. Their work involved restructuring the index and other documentation files.
containersanalyticsdata-analysispachydermpipeline
pachyderm-io/www
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:15 pushes in 3 days
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