Joseph Bona
Lead Software Engineer at Helios
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Bona is a lead software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building high-traffic, revenue-generating web products and shipping fast iterations from MVP to production. He combines hands-on front-end expertise (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind) with product instincts—scaling Helios from idea to six-figure ARR and architecting major migrations at Barstool and Thomson Reuters. Known for turning design and customer feedback into performant UIs, he has led teams, mentored engineers, and standardized APIs and workflows to boost productivity (notably converting his teams to Cursor with Claude 3.5). Based in the New York metro area, Joseph thrives in cross-functional roles where he contributes beyond code—branding, growth, and sales—bringing an entrepreneur’s focus on outcomes to large enterprise challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Marketing at St. John's UniversityFullstack Javascript, Fullstack Javascript at Fullstack AcademyBusiness Administration Marketing Spanish, Business Administration Marketing Spanish at Stony Brook University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
html-webpack-plugin10
webpack-plugin10
webpack-loader10
bundle9
react-component9
linux9
chromium9
browser9
browserify9
webpack9
requirejs9
css9
react9
brave-browser9
bundling9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
BarstoolSports/frontend-challenge
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 1 month
josephbona/bootsass
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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