Josef Waller
Senior Software Developer at Spare
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Waller is a Senior Software Developer based in Vancouver with 11 years of hands-on experience building web applications, backend services, APIs, and developer-facing tools. He started programming at age ten making video games and entered the tech industry at seventeen, blending formal CS education from the University of Victoria with extensive self-taught and on-the-job learning. Josef has contributed across the full stack—React frontends, Spring Boot/Java backends, PostgreSQL databases, and Ruby on Rails projects—delivering features and incident-resolution improvements at xMatters and now Spare. He is comfortable shipping in diverse environments and quickly integrating with remote teams, having progressed from intern roles to senior engineering. A lifelong game-dev hobbyist, he brings a playful curiosity to complex technical problems and a history of adapting to new languages and architectures. Practical, versatile, and delivery-focused, Josef excels at turning product needs into robust, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (18)
playing10
api9
google-hangouts7
python7
chat5
gift4
azerothcore4
react3
google3
javascript3
messaging3
typescript3
instant-messaging3
asyncio3
rails1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
josefwaller/yane
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 124 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
josefwaller/old-josefwaller-website
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:121 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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