Software Architect Engineer
Hi, my name is Joe Kramer and I like to build things for the web. 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.
Primary Tech Stack
HTML
17 yrs
CSS
17 yrs
JavaScript
14 yrs
NodeJS
9 yrs
AWS
9 yrs
TypeScript
3 yrs
NextJS
3 yrs
ReactJS
3 yrs
GraphQL
1 yr
Additional Skills
Adobe Photoshop
14 yrs
Adobe InDesign
14 yrs
Adobe Audition
14 yrs
JSON
14 yrs
Git
11 yrs
GitHub
11 yrs
AWS S3
9 yrs
AWS CloudFront
9 yrs
jQuery
9 yrs
REST APIs
8 yrs
ExpressJS
8 yrs
AWS DynamoDB
6 yrs
AWS EC2
6 yrs
MySQL
4 yrs
PHP
4 yrs
MongoDB
2 yrs
AWS Lambda
2 yrs
C#.NET
3 yrs
XML
2 yrs
React Testing Library
1 yr
Vitest
1 yr
WebSocket
1 yr
D3JS
1 yr
SQL
1 yr
Sencha ExtJS
1 yr
Currently Learning
Solidity
HardHat
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
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Kodes 10X
Architecture and development of web2 and web3 applications.
Principal Software Engineer
Discover Financial Services
Researching and picking new tools and architecture. Implementing new tools and upgrading code bases. Building new features.
Software Architect Engineer
Apple
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.
Director of Engineering
i2Chain
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.
Senior Software Engineer
CatapultX
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.
Senior Software Engineer
Hearst
Data management and rules project using PHP and Directus for new AdTech solutions for newspaper and TV station websites.
Software Architect
Wambi
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.
Principal Software Engineer
Dell
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.
Senior Software Engineer
NBC Universal
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.
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder
Nikola Advanced Research Laboratories Inc
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.
SVP Engineering
KERV Interactive
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.”
Software Engineer
Junta
Built a custom CMS platform with PHP and Symfony2 for managing users, profiles, messages, and content. Built UI of video heavy web apps.
Software Engineer
Florida Virtual School
Front End Development debugging and testing code for online educational courses as well as reverse engineering Flash based components into HTML5 and JavaScript.
Software Engineer
Container Centralen
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.
Lead Front End Software Engineer
FlightScope
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.
Front End Software Engineer
IntegraClick
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.
Software Engineer
Metrohm USA
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.
Software Engineer
ReliaQuest
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.
Student
University of South Florida
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.
Owner and Founder
JKtheory Design
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.
Accolades
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
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
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
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.