About - Joe Karlsson

About Joe Karlsson

Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Data Engineer turned Developer Advocate. He empowers developers to think creatively when building applications with a massive amount of data, through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need.

Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one of the largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid TikToker and Tweeter.

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Career

[ March 2023 – Present ]

- Empowering and educating developers who want to build applications on Tinybird by providing them with essential resources, tools, and support.

- Serving as a technical ally to developers, fostering strong relationships with individuals and organizations within the developer community.

- Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation and other materials to support developers in their journey with Tinybird.

- Collaborating with our Partnerships team to ensure the developer's voice is heard, by creating engaging content such as demos, blog posts, webinars, and workshops.

- Leading community conversations around best practices for scaling SQL workloads and sharing insights on modern application architecture and feature management.-

[ July 2021 – March 2023 ]

- Develop demo applications against our integrations to showcase the product use case.

- Collaborate with our Partnerships team to advocate for the developer voice and create impactful content in the form of demos, blog posts, webinars, and workshops.

- Write about technology trends focused around feature management, modern application architecture with the goal of engaging developers, developer managers, and senior technical leaders.

- Lead conversations in the community around best practices for scaling SQL workloads.
Articulate the technical value proposition of SingleStore experience vs competitive solutions

- Provide cross-audience support and in-depth technical enablement.

SingleStore is a highly scalable SQL-database that delivers maximum performance for transactional and analytical workloads, with familiar relational data structures.

[ May 2019 – July 2021 ]

- Educate and empower developers wanting to build applications on MongoDB.

- Serve as a technical ally and partner to developers.

- Build relationships with individuals and organizations who support and inspire developer communities.

- Developing documentation and other materials to support developers

- Act as a subject matter expert for MongoDB to improve the developer experience.

[ Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2019 ]

Focused on engineering high performing solutions at one of the top 10 e-commerce sites in North America. As a software engineer, my responsibilities include:

- Collaborating with cross-discipline team members to solve convoluted problems that need scalable solutions.

- Participating in an agile product development lifecycle from concept to deployment.

- Architecting simple solutions for complex e-commerce rules to support a myriad of customer needs.

- Using the latest standards and technology to institute cost-effective, efficient, interactive customer experiences.

- Supporting and scaling production applications that handle thousands of requests per second.

[ Aug 2015 – Jul 2017 ]

Responsible for instructing full-stack JavaScript development to students at one of the top ten best intensive coding bootcamps in the World. I guide and assist students during their entire learning experience including:

- Welcoming students to the class.

- Creating curriculum and presenting all class information.

- Teaching students to write JavaScript programs, design algorithms and web application systems.

- Preparing students for a career in a technical field.

DevLeague is an accelerated learning program where we teach in-class modern software development skills to adults. As Hawaii’s first and only web software boot camp, we design curriculum and conduct 12-week courses for motivated individuals. The results are our graduates gain the necessary skills, confidence and project work to earn their career start as a software developer.

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