Joe Freeman

Generalist product engineer with experience across scientific domains and consumer-facing products.

Projects

Coflux — Open-source workflow engine

Topical — Elixir library for state synchronisation

Experience

Finres, London/Paris — Lead software engineer

April 2024 - Present

Genpax, London — Engineering Manager

May 2022 - December 2023

Optimal Labs, London — Software Engineer

August 2020 - May 2022

HireHand, London — Lead Engineer

January 2016 - August 2020

Self-employed

August 2014 - January 2016

SwiftKey, London — Software Engineer

June 2012 - August 2014

Formicary/MindLink, London — Software Engineer

May-October 2008, January 2010 - June 2012

Self-employed

2004-2010

Education

Imperial College London, UK — MEng Computing

2005 - 2009

Domains

Bioinformatics
Process control (MPC)
Plant science
Climate science
Two-sided marketplaces
Natural language processing
Collaboration tools

Expertise

Backend (scalability, reliability, cloud)
Data (IoT sensors, analysis, pipelines)
DevOps (IaC, CI/CD)
Web (SPAs, accessibility)
Mobile (native, hybrid)

Languages

Elixir/Erlang, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript (React/Next.js, Tailwind/Blueprint/Radix, SVG, Node.js, etc), Clojure, Ruby, C#/.NET, Java, PHP.

Technologies

AWS (Lambda, ECS, Batch, CloudFormation, etc), GCP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Sqlite, Redis, OTP, RabbitMQ, GraphQL, Pandas/NumPy, Jupyter, Git, Docker, Android, iOS.