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.
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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
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
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.
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Accolades
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
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
Joe is hands down one of the most versatile and talented people I have ever had the pleasure to know or work with. He has an experienced, honed, and effective set of engineering skills that allow him to tackle problems all the way from complex architecture design, through to complete software. His technical ability and personality make him the type of leader you WANT to follow. Joe is always looking out for everybody on his team, and beyond his ability to create great products, he is just an excellent leader overall. He truly invests himself in everything he makes, and the people he works with. Anybody, including myself, would be lucky to have him as part of a team.
- Jeremy Brenner
"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground."
- Wilferd Peterson
Core Values
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Optimism
Belief in the best of outcomes and stiving to make it reality.
2
Continuous Learning
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
Determination
Making up your mind that you're going to achieve a goal, and taking action to keep pushing forward until it's accomplished.
4
Creativity
Generating or recognizing ideas, possibilities, and alternatives that are new and valuable, that may be useful in solving problems, communicating, or entertainment.