Joseph Estefane
Senior Engineer 1 at American Express
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Estefane is a Senior Engineer with a decade of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across e-commerce and product-focused companies. Now at American Express after serving as Engineering Tech Lead at Shapeways, he blends hands-on coding with technical leadership to deliver reliable, scalable services. He has strong expertise in database-backed applications and spatial data, contributing bug fixes, tests, and distance/bounding-box query features to a widely used Laravel MySQL spatial library. Joseph’s background spans system administration to senior technical roles, giving him an operational perspective on production reliability and deployment. Based in New York, he pairs a Business Administration degree with a Computer Science minor, bridging product thinking and implementation detail. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into maintainable code and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree minor Computer Science, Bachelor's degree minor Computer Science at American University of Beirut
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (20)
twitter-bootstrap10
mysql10
laravel-mix10
laravel10
spatial-data10
phpunit10
php10
geometry9
android9
configurations9
eloquent8
databases7
database7
html6
phpstorm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grimzy/laravel-mysql-spatial
Mar 2017 - Oct 2020
MySQL Spatial Data Extension integration with Laravel.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 229 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the integration of MySQL spatial data extensions within the Laravel framework. Their work involved fixing bugs related to WKB handling and ensuring compatibility, adding unit tests to validate functionality, and implementing scopes for distance calculations and bounding box filtering. These changes focused on enhancing the library's core features, particularly around the handling and querying of spatial data types within a MySQL database context.
laravel-5-packagemysqlspatialphpspatial-data
grimzy/symfony-github-actions
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:20 PRs, 32 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 2 months
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