Summary
Joseph Hunsaker is a Chief Software Architect with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems, leading teams, and founding product-focused startups from Salt Lake City. He currently architects AI-first insurance platforms and an IoT family entertainment stack, combining hands-on engineering with strategic system design. Joseph has a strong AWS and infrastructure-as-code background—migrating projects from Terraform to AWS CDK in Java—and a history of shipping distributed inventory, real-time data, and BI solutions. A committed mentor and Pluralsight author, he emphasizes best practices and lifts teams into high performance through example. Notably, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise rigor, moving fluidly between developer advocacy, open-source stewardship, and production architecture.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Utah State University Eastern
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Portuguese, Spanish