Summary
Joseph Elliott is a veteran software engineer and co-founder with 12+ years of experience building high-scale, product-focused systems across startups and mission-driven organizations. Currently leading technology and product at Jiveworld, he blends hands-on engineering with strategic architecture—ranging from real-time video platforms supporting 50k+ concurrent viewers to Ruby on Rails marketplaces and credit/crowdfunding systems for cooperatives. He is fluent across JVM, Ruby, Scala, Node.js and cloud deployments, and has repeatedly delivered integrations for payments, analytics, and accounting systems. Notably, his background includes driving media-streaming architecture at Kyte and replatforming legacy financial systems into modern Rails stacks for social impact clients, revealing a rare mix of performance engineering and purpose-driven product design.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer