Joseph Williams
Founder Principal Engineer at Alta Marea
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Williams is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 10 years of experience building full-stack products and leading small engineering teams in fintech and Web3. He specializes in frontend-first architectures using React, Typescript, Next.js and Vite/Remix, while also owning Node/Rails backends and Postgres-driven data models. Recently he led engineering for token launch and crypto exchange experiences—driving multi-chain wallets, marketplace UX, and high-throughput trading terminals that supported billions in transactions. As a consultant he shipped two MVPs in 2024: a smart-contract subscription platform for creators and an AI-driven chat analytics product, demonstrating a blend of product sense and hands-on delivery. He’s comfortable mentoring distributed teams across the Americas and translating domain requirements into secure, production-ready systems. A former historian-turned-engineer, he brings an unusual mix of narrative-driven problem framing and rigorous implementation discipline.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, International Relations, Master's Degree, International Relations at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachelor's Degree, History, Bachelor's Degree, History at University of MarylandWeb Development, Software Engineering, Web Development, Software Engineering at App Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (17)
emulation6
interrupt6
macos5
youtube5
objective-c5
localization4
jinja23
yaml3
itunes3
github-repos3
internationalization3
torrent2
cli2
unzip1
git1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
josephwilliams/friendzone
Sep 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 54 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
reactbuilt-with-reactfirebasetrackingreactjs
josephwilliams/icebox
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:71 PRs, 98 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
ruby-on-railsreactrailssharing-appsharing
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