Summary
Joseph Simmons is a seasoned full-stack software engineer consultant based in Austin, Texas, with 11 years of experience building web applications and APIs across Ruby, Node.js, and JavaScript ecosystems. He has guided teams and taught developers as a Lead Software Engineering Instructor, reskilling professionals in JavaScript, Python, React, Angular, Node, and SQL. His background includes architecting and maintaining SaaS Rails apps, moving legacy systems to the cloud, and building API clients in multiple languages for real-world social-impact and enterprise projects. At TXI he continues consulting on production systems while bringing practical project management and customer-driven feature delivery to engagements. Notably, he pairs a physics foundation from UT Austin with a recent Computer Science focus at Western Governors University, reflecting a methodical, analytical approach to software design and problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science, Computer Science at Western Governors University