# Joe Czepil

> Joe Czepil is a freelance product developer in Metro Vancouver (Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada). He builds 0-to-1 products and new initiatives — fast, and with quality — for founders and teams. Through &Pals Studio, which he co-owns, he can also assemble a full design and development team for larger efforts. Based in Coquitlam, BC, in the Pacific timezone. Available for contract work in Vancouver, across Canada, and remotely.

Joe has a bachelor's degree in software engineering with a business minor and 6+ years of professional experience. He spent most of his early career leading a team and building software at PICTUS with Vue and Django. He is now a co-owner of [&Pals Studio](https://andpals.com), where he designs and builds new products for founders and innovative teams, and can pull together a team of designers and developers to take initiatives from zero to one quickly without sacrificing quality.

## Why hire Joe

- Product sense: deeply understands users, their needs, and how to meet them — not just a code contributor.
- 0-to-1 speed: experienced at taking new ideas from concept to launched product fast.
- Quality: 6+ years leading teams, defining API structure, design systems, and contribution guidelines means the things he ships are built to last.
- Team lead and IC: equally comfortable leading a team and writing the code himself.
- Team on demand: through &Pals Studio, he can spin up a full design + dev team when the work calls for it.
- Local: based in Metro Vancouver, available in Pacific time for real-time collaboration.

## What people he's worked with say

- "In my 25 year IT career, I can honestly say Joe has been the best developer I've worked with." — Doug Klem, Manager, PICTUS
- "He's one of the brightest, most productive, pleasant people I have encountered in my long career." — John Roberts, Senior Developer, PICTUS
- "He is detail-oriented, empathetic and keen on making positive change" — Beth Rogers, President, PICTUS

## Services

- Build: Build and launch new websites and web applications from the ground up, solo or with a team.
- Improve: Make improvements to existing systems, whether he built them or someone else did.
- Maintain: Keep deployed systems secure, updated, and patched.

## Project types

Websites, website CMSs, admin dashboards, knowledge bases, user management, booking systems, inventory management, data collection, client portals, membership systems, payment management, data reporting, project management, and social platforms.

## Tech he works with

React, Vue, Next.js, Django, Django Rest Framework, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, SCSS, Tailwind, AWS (S3, SNS, SES, CloudFront, IAM), Azure, Git, GitHub. Also experienced with Go, Auth0, Railway, Contentful, Sanity, SwiftUI, Supabase, Framer, Clerk, Plaid, GitLab, JIRA, Docker, and PostGIS.

## Contact

- Email: joe@czepil.com
- Site: https://joeczepil.com
- Studio: https://andpals.com

## Products he has built

- [&Pals Studio](https://andpals.com) — Design and development studio he co-owns.
- [Bard](https://site.bard.art)
- [Bastila](https://bastila.app)
- [Muriel](https://muriel.io)
- [Cronicle](https://cronicle.me)
- [Hashitoutwith.me](https://hashitoutwith.me)
- [PICTUS](https://www.pictus.ca) — Recycling industry software where he led a team for 6 years.
- [Certn](https://certn.co) — Software engineer.