Software Architect Engineer
Hi, my name is Joe Kramer and I like to build apps for both web2 and web3. For the past seventeen years, I have been passionate about crafting visually stunning and user-friendly app and web experiences. Through my extensive experience, I have developed a diverse skill set and taken on various roles, allowing me to comprehend and design innovative product developments that cater to user needs while aligning with business requirements and maintaining impeccable engineering standards. My enthusiasm for design and code drives me to tackle challenging projects with utmost dedication.
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Primary Tech Stack
HTML
HTML
17 yrs
CSS
CSS
17 yrs
JavaScript
JavaScript
15 yrs
NodeJS
NodeJS
10 yrs
AWS
AWS
10 yrs
TypeScript
TypeScript
4 yrs
NextJS
NextJS
4 yrs
ReactJS
ReactJS
4 yrs
GraphQL
GraphQL
1 yr
Solidity
Solidity
1 yr
EthersJS
EthersJS
1 yr
HardHat
HardHat
1 yr
Additional Skills
JSON
JSON
15 yrs
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop
14 yrs
Adobe InDesign
Adobe InDesign
14 yrs
Adobe Audition
Adobe Audition
14 yrs
Git
Git
12 yrs
GitHub
GitHub
12 yrs
AWS S3
AWS S3
9 yrs
AWS CloudFront
AWS CloudFront
9 yrs
jQuery
jQuery
9 yrs
REST APIs
REST APIs
8 yrs
ExpressJS
ExpressJS
8 yrs
AWS DynamoDB
AWS DynamoDB
6 yrs
AWS EC2
AWS EC2
6 yrs
MySQL
MySQL
4 yrs
PHP
PHP
4 yrs
MongoDB
MongoDB
2 yrs
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
2 yrs
C#.NET
C#.NET
3 yrs
XML
XML
2 yrs
Alchemy
Alchemy
1 yr
Ethereum blockchain
Ethereum blockchain
1 yr
UniSwap
UniSwap
1 yr
Remix
Remix
1 yr
React Testing Library
React Testing Library
1 yr
Vitest
Vitest
1 yr
WebSocket
WebSocket
1 yr
VPAID
VPAID
1 yr
VAST
VAST
1 yr
NGINX
NGINX
1 yr
D3JS
D3JS
1 yr
SQL
SQL
1 yr
Adobe UXP
Adobe UXP
1 yr
Sencha ExtJS
Sencha ExtJS
1 yr
Qualifications
  • Advanced proficiency in CSS and ReactJS, enabling creation of intricate designs with interactivity, layering, animation, and seamless responsiveness to window resizing, among other essential features.
  • I have an affinity for all things art and engineering, but my expertise is in custom designing new enterprise level applications from scratch.
  • Well-rounded professional software engineer with over sixteen years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining diverse sets of technologies for small businesses, startups, and large international corporations.
  • Committed to meeting industry standards and best practices. Establishes processes, workflow, communication, and tools for an effective and efficient engineering team. Writes exceptionally clean and documented code.
  • Lifelong learner. Constantly researching and testing new technologies and processes.
  • Comprehensive understanding and experience of the complete life cycle of development: from discovery and business analysis, defining requirements and priorities, user experience design, full stack development, testing and debugging, to deployment of product releases.
  • Decisive leader of initiatives to promote organizational growth and optimal utilization of emerging technologies.
  • Excellent collaboration skills. Works great in small teams as well as individually and remotely. Helps teach and train others with valuable insight. Helps others troubleshoot coding problems and debugging.
  • Skilled in solving extremely complex logic problems in large systems as well as applying artistic visual qualities in extraordinary precision and detail.
  • Built enterprises from concept into production with millions of users.
  • Exceptional at finding and recruiting the best engineers, and building teams with a great culture.
  • Communication with clients to articulate and simplify complex technology, demo products, and assist with questions and integrations.
Experience
logo AKKO
Staff Front End Software Engineer
08/2024 - Present
Contract
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Front End Dev
UI development and maintenance of web and mobile apps.
JavaScript
TypeScript
NodeJS
ReactJS
HTML5 / CSS3
logo Discover Financial Services
Principal Software Engineer
10/2023 - 07/2024
Contract
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Front End Dev
Researching and picking new tools and architecture. Implementing new tools and upgrading code bases. Building new features.
JavaScript
TypeScript
NodeJS
ReactJS
HTML5 / CSS3
Vitest
React Testing Library
Micro Front End
logo Apple
Software Architect Engineer
04/2022 - 09/2023
Contract
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Front End Dev
UI focus on multiple projects. New features and bug fixes to data reporting internal tools using TypeScript and ReactJS. Adobe Photoshop UXP plugin using TypeScript.
JavaScript
TypeScript
NodeJS
ReactJS
HTML5 / CSS3
Adobe UXP
Adobe Photoshop
WebGL
ThreeJS
WebSocket
logo i2Chain
Director of Engineering
11/2021 - 03/2022
Employee
Remote
San Francisco, CA, USA
Leadership
Leading Front End development with offshore team on an innovative next generation security solution for enterprises that encrypts, injects rights management, and traceability into documents. Successfully implemented workflow, processes, tools, and communication to get the stalled project organized and back on track to deliver new features and bug fixes. Working with clients on testing, implementation, and features.
AWS
Figma
logo CatapultX
Senior Software Engineer
10/2020 - 10/2021
Employee
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Front End Dev
Developed next gen video player agnostic AdTech container system to display a variety of ad formats (traditional and next gen) on top of or around the video player on desktop and mobile devices using TypeScript. Successfully completed the project months ahead of schedule and rolled out to clients using 20 different video providers proving the system to be player agnostic, adaptable, and configurable.
NodeJS
ExpressJS
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML5 / CSS3
JWPlayer
Akamai Player
Avantis Player
BridTV
Fluid Player
Rumble Player
Video Intelligence Player
YouTube
AMP Player
Google AMP
AirTV Player
Connatix Player
logo Hearst
Senior Software Engineer
07/2020 - 09/2020
Contract
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Full Stack Dev
Data management and rules project using PHP and Directus for new AdTech solutions for newspaper and TV station websites.
PHP
Directus
logo Wambi
Software Architect
07/2019 - 06/2020
Employee
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Leadership, Full Stack Dev
Strategy, architecture, and documentation of complete product overhaul of infrastructure, apps, and UI. Recruited, built and managed internal engineering team of 6. Collaborate with Sales, Account Management, and Customer Service to understand customer pain points with current product and desired features in the next version. Started rebuilding the product from scratch in NodeJS, NextJS, ReactJS, AWS.
AWS
JavaScript
NodeJS
NextJS
ReactJS
HTML5 / CSS3
Adobe XD
Adobe Photoshop
logo Dell
Principal Software Engineer
02/2019 - 07/2019
Contract
Hybrid Remote & Office
Round Rock, TX, USA
Front End Dev
Worked with SRE Team to develop enterprise level internal tools. Built D3JS graphing & filtering dashboard UI for system performance monitoring of the entire Dell ecosystem from infrastructure to apps in a new mobile C#.NET Xamarin app. Built additional features into a Chrome Browser Extension, and the UI of C#.NET app used for product research.
HTML5 / CSS3
C#.NET
Xamarin
D3JS
JavaScript
logo NBC Universal
Senior Software Engineer
08/2018 - 01/2019
Contract
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Full Stack Dev
Built API for app health monitoring and notifications with NodeJS, AWS Lambda. Built PHP scripts to utilize Brightcove API to retrieve, search, edit, & delete content in media library. Built API with NodeJS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB to manage promo codes and winners and sent emails & push notifications to users with Leanplum.
AWS
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
PHP
NodeJS
JavaScript
logo Nikola Advanced Research Laboratories Inc
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
03/2017 - 08/2018
Employee
Remote
Tampa, FL
Leadership, Full Stack Dev
Designed and built NodeJS, NextJS, ReactJS apps deployed on AWS for a variety of clients. Recruited, hired, trained, managed a cross functional team of 12. Sales, fund raising, and partnering with a gov contractor for RFPs.
AWS
AWS Route53
AWS CloudFront
AWS S3
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
JavaScript
NodeJS
NextJS
ReactJS
HTML5 / CSS3
Adobe Photoshop
logo KERV Interactive
SVP Engineering
09/2014 - 01/2018
Employee
Remote
Austin, TX, USA
Leadership, Full Stack Dev
Designed and built award winning, next gen, video player agnostic, interactive AdTech from scratch with NodeJS, ExpressJS, VAST, VPAID, AWS. Built a custom platform for content and campaign configuration. Recruited, hired, trained, and managed engineering team of 9. Sales Engineer for client demos and integrations as well as company M&A events including due diligence. Soft launched with several large global brand clients (NBC Univeral, Audi, Lamborghini, etc.), of which one project won the prestigious Lumiere Award of the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS), collecting the accolade in the Best Branded Experience: Sports category for “Formula 1 Experiences.”
AWS
AWS Route53
AWS CloudFront
AWS S3
AWS Lambda
AWS DynamoDB
AWS Aurora DB
AWS RedShift
MongoDB
NodeJS
ExpressJS
JavaScript
jQuery
HTML5 / CSS3
Brightcove
The Platform (Comcast)
JWPlayer
Virtual Box
Adobe Photoshop
VPAID
VAST
logo Junta
Software Engineer
07/2013 - 09/2014
Employee
On Site
Miami Beach, FL, USA
Full Stack Dev
Built a custom CMS platform with PHP and Symfony2 for managing users, profiles, messages, and content. Built UI of video heavy web apps.
HTML5 / CSS3
PHP 5.4
Symfony2
Twig
Doctrine
Twitter Bootstrap
MongoDB
MySQL
AJAX
JavaScript
jQuery
XML
YAML
JSON
Ubuntu 14.x
CentOS6
PHPStorm
Virtual Box
MySQL Workbench
Apache
NGINX
logo Florida Virtual School
Software Engineer
04/2013 - 06/2013
Contract
On Site
Orlando, FL, USA
Front End Dev
Front End Development debugging and testing code for online educational courses as well as reverse engineering Flash based components into HTML5 and JavaScript.
HTML5 / CSS3
JSON
XML
JavaScript
jQuery
AJAX
logo Container Centralen
Software Engineer
12/2012 - 04/2013
Contract
Hybrid Remote & Office
Winter Garden, FL, USA
Front End Dev
Full Stack Development designing and building a custom web application from scratch in C#.NET that has a public corporate home site as well as an authorized area for customers and employees to manage data and accounts. Business Analysis, application architecture, database design, web and graphic design. Initiated getting Git / GitHub implemented for our source control.
C#.NET 4.5
MVC 4
SQL
HTML5 / CSS3
JavaScript
jQuery
AJAX
XML
Windows Server 2008
SQL Server 2008/2012
Adobe Photoshop
logo FlightScope
Lead Front End Software Engineer
05/2012 - 11/2012
Employee
Hybrid Remote & Office
Orlando, FL, USA
Front End Dev
Full Stack Development of a new web app in PHP, JS, HTML, CSS that was a community site for the physical golf radar product that showed your performance super imposed on the golf course map, as well as leaderboard competition.
PHP
MySQL
HTML5 / CSS3
HTML5 Canvas
JavaScript
jQuery
AJAX
WordPress
Adobe Photoshop
logo IntegraClick
Front End Software Engineer
12/2010 - 05/2012
Employee
On Site
Sarasota, FL, USA
Front End Dev
Worked closely with the design team for building emails and over 200 websites using JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS for marketing landing pages of multimillion dollar campaigns. Debugging and researching issues in the AdTech platform company was developing for managing marketing campaigns.
PHP 5.3
Zend PHP
HTML5 / CSS3
JavaScript
jQuery
AJAX
JSON
XML
Sencha ExtJS4
WordPress
Adobe Photoshop
logo Metrohm USA
Software Engineer
02/2010 - 12/2010
Contract
Hybrid Remote & Office
Riverview, FL, USA
Front End Dev
Full stack development building out three websites and migrated content into a new CMS system. Served as liaison between Metrohm USA and the development team of the parent company Metrohm AG in Switzerland. Also built a simple Windows Console Application to track company computers. Content design and management, contact management, data migration into a CMS system, web services, SQL server, web design, graphic design, analytics, social media, marketing campaigns, communications.
Classic ASP
C#.NET
SQL
HTML / CSS
logo ReliaQuest
Software Engineer
07/2009 - 02/2010
Contract
Hybrid Remote & Office
Tampa, FL, USA
Full Stack Dev
Back End Development of websites and apps for a talent recruitment firm. Worked on three websites, including building the C# ASP.NET backends from scratch for two of them. Taught myself MS .NET Framework and related technologies. I also designed and managed databases, content design and management, graphic design.
C#.NET
SQL
HTML / CSS
AJAX
08/2007 - 12/2009
Student
On Site
Tampa, FL, USA
Studied Management Information Systems, Engineering, Architecture. Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity Psi Phi chapter; Vice President (Fall 2008 - Spring 2009). I dropped out of college early when I realized I was already learning and using the latest cutting edge technologies and becoming proficient in my work as a software engineer for local companies, and how much time and money I would save by skipping a slow, outdated, and expensive curriculum.
HTML / CSS
logo JKtheory Design
Owner and Founder
02/2003 - 07/2006
Freelance
Remote
Laurel, MD, USA
Full Stack Dev
Freelance design and development of websites using PHP, HTML, CSS and screen printing t-shirts for small local businesses and organizations while attending high school.
PHP
HTML / CSS
Accolades
person Ken Rogers
Joe is a very detail oriented engineer with great organizational skills. Our project was very complex but Joe jumped right in and absorbed our process, technology and existing codebase and got right to work! Our project was a very interesting stack that required advanced knowledge of Node, Typescript, UXP, WebGL, CSS and Web Sockets. Thank you for a great job! We would definitely hire Joe again.
- Ken Rogers
Apple
person Nicholas Navarra
Joe is a brilliant full-stack engineer with a proven track record of success. He is highly skilled in a plethora of programming languages. Joe’s grit is unmatched and he can bring small to enterprise level products to life. One strength is Joe’s ability to deal with conflicting priorities in high-pressure situations. He never loses his cool which is one of the reasons he stands out. I had the pleasure of working with him at a startup. He trained me in product design (UX/UI) and pushed my knowledge of IT and business to new heights. As a leader, he is always available to help. Joe also allows you to have autonomy on projects, which keeps employees happy and helps them to grow. He has helped mentor and train junior to mid-level developers who are now successful. I saw some of the new technologies he created for a company. He was able to create a new interactive tool that was a first of its kind. I won’t be surprised if he has a unicorn in the near future. Any company that hires him is fortunate because he will be an asset.
- Nicholas Navarra
Nikola Advanced Research Laboratories Inc
person Daniel Gih
Right from the start, I could tell that Joe was experienced, patient, and a unicorn. During the time I worked with him, I learned of and appreciated his resilient nature that was extremely necessary in a startup. He was always understanding and consistently helped me with my career progression throughout Grabit. His skills communication and management was great, given our remote environment. Joe asked all the critical questions, poked holes into everything and was a architecture wizard. He was a critical part of my personal growth and I value him as a friend. Cheers to crossing paths again professionally!
- Daniel Gih
KERV Interactive
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Core Values
1
Optimism
Belief in the best of outcomes and stiving to make it reality.
2
Curiosity
Ongoing expansion of knowledge and skill sets to arrive prepared in a continuously changing environment. I'm a life long learner and always trying to better myself.
3
Creativity
Generating or recognizing ideas, possibilities, and alternatives that are new and valuable, that may be useful in solving problems, communicating, or entertainment.
4
Determination
Making up your mind that you're going to achieve a goal, and taking action to keep pushing forward until it's accomplished.