Summary
Joseph Shering is a Senior Backend Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with around 11–12 years of hands-on software experience, currently building Elixir systems at InCharge Energy. He brings broad polyglot fluency—Elixir, Python, Go, Rust, Gleam and JS—shipped across startups and mid-size companies from SmartRent to Hivelocity, often focusing on resilient backend services and scalable integrations. Joseph has a track record of moving between infrastructure and product-facing domains, accelerating delivery while keeping systems maintainable. Notably, he favors modern functional languages and has adopted less common tools like Gleam in production, reflecting a curiosity for language-driven correctness and performance.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Academic, High School Diploma, Academic at Ludlow High School
AS, Computer Programming, AS, Computer Programming at Springfield Technical Community College
English