Joseph Souter
Director Of Engineering at Foundry 376
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Souter is a Director of Engineering with nine years of professional experience and a strong track record of building full-stack products and teams from startup to scale. Based in Nashville, he has led mobile and backend engineering efforts, founded and ran a data-driven parking analytics company that processed tens of thousands of datapoints daily, and currently directs engineering at Foundry 376. He combines hands-on development—refactoring complex systems and shipping polished UIs—with product-minded customer engagement, having designed mobile apps, computer-vision pipelines, and real-time decision systems. An active contributor to the popular Dagster orchestration project, Joseph has improved UI/UX and observability components, bringing production-grade thinking to developer tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who pairs systems-level discipline with an entrepreneur’s instinct for customer-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
dagster10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
graphql9
data-engineering8
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
ui-design7
python4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on enhancing the Dagit UI and related components. Their contributions included improvements to the Gantt chart, asset materialization warnings, and run status indicators. They also worked on fixing UI bugs and improving the user experience through better selection and display of run details. The changes also involved refactoring the existing code to incorporate best practices.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
souterjk/dagster
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Contributions:21 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
pythonobservationorchestrationdata-engineeringetl
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