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Hello. I’m Joanna.

When I was starting out as a software engineer, the joy came from solving intricate puzzles: How do I find the most elegant, performant way to implement a feature? What’s the root cause of an issue no one can figure out? Over time, the scope of those problems grew: How do we scale a service to meet the needs of a global user base? Should we use a simple message queue or a more durable workflow solution like Temporal? Now the joy comes from the much harder mystery of what to build and when: How do we prioritize competing feature requirements with limited resources? What are the right products and tools for our long term needs? These are large-scale problems that cross multiple disciplines and multiple teams. The creativity and rigor it takes to come up with solutions - and then be ready to revise them quickly as conditions change - is the most interesting and exciting challenge I’ve faced in my career so far.

I’m now focused exclusively on product and I'm bringing my engineering expertise with me. I have the drive and curiosity to uncover the what and the technical skills it takes to navigate the how. 

Most recent role: Engineering Manager at Justworks.

My Resume
A handy list of skills

Personal projects

• Fable’s Fables
  When I was a kid I had a book of Aesop’s Fables my grandfather gave me. Aesop was a Greek storyteller who lived between 620 and 564 BCE. His fables are all morality tales. I thought it would be kinda fun if the Fable LLM could be a modern-day Aesop and weave some morailty tales of its own so I build a very simple claude skill to generate tech/AI fables (it works with any LLM, but Fable’s Fables has a nice ring to it). [download]

• Show, Don’t Tell
  A claude skill for replying to prompts visually - with FigJam diagrams instead of text.

• DisneyMath
  A not-remotely-affiliated-with-Disney chrome extension that calculates the real cost of your trip.

• Is that What You’re Wearing?
  sartorial decision engine

• Pixelo
  social media platform for kids

• Magic Mirror
  raspberry pi / DIY