Hi, I'm Joe! I'm a developer with a strong product sense, capable of understanding users, their needs, and how to meet those needs. I'm located in Coquitlam, BC, Canada in the PST timezone (GMT-7). I graduated with a bachelors degree in software engineering and a business minor in 2018.
I spent most of the first 6 years of my career leading a team and building software in the recycling industry with Vue and Django. My responsibilities included but were not limited to working with clients, managing expectations, timelines, and budgets. Managing and mentoring the team, running 1on1s, planning and refining sessions, and sprints. Building out our frontend component library, design system, and code contribution guidelines. Defining our API code structure, practices, service layer, permissions, and tests. Managing releases, release notes, and communication with other teams.
During all of that I also never stopped building apps on my own and with friends such as Bard, Bastila, Muriel, Cronicle, and Hashitoutwith.me.
Since then, I've begun working as a freelance product developer. Primarily as a co-owner of the &Pals Studio where we design and build new products for founders and teams that are innovating.
I have a wide breadth of experience which makes me capable of speaking everyones language and getting things done. It also means I have to have the humility to know when someone has more domain knowledge than me and should be trusted and lifted up. I enjoy working directly with clients and other stakeholders to arrive at solutions that meet everyones expectations. I enjoy working as both a team lead and a code contributor.
As a developer, I simply enjoy building great products and websites as you can see by all the products listed above.
Building products is really all about making trade offs. What can we build? How fast? At what quality? At what cost? How maintainable is it? What value does it provide? Does it align with our vision? Does it align with the market and where we fit in it? Is it an experiment or something we know we want? Is it a short term or a long term solution? These are the questions that excite me and drive me. It's nice that as a developer I also get to build them sometimes.
Let’s chat.
joe@czepil.com"He is detail-oriented, empathetic and keen on making positive change"
Beth Rogers · President, PICTUS
"He's one of the brightest, most productive, pleasant people I have encountered in my long career."
John Roberts · Senior Developer, PICTUS
"In my 25 year IT career, I can honestly say Joe has been the best developer I've worked with."
Doug Klem · Manager, PICTUS