Joe Pettit - Software engineer, avgeek, cat dad, photographer

Hey, I'm Joe.

I'm a software engineer interested in developer experience, automation, and emerging AI tooling.

Remote from Minneapolis, MN

Interests

Team leadership

Leading large scale projects to completion
Developing team members
Creating a culture of learning

Developer experience

Creating tools to make developers' lives easier
Automating repetitive tasks
Improving the developer workflow
Implementing industry standard metrics
Advocating for engineers

Creating products

Building products - from ideation to launch
Always customer focused
Products for people, not for metrics
Focused on not losing focus

Skills & Technologies

Python

Elixir

Javascript

Typescript

Ruby

Flask

Phoenix

Node.js

React

Deno

Rails

Postgres

MySQL

Kafka

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Argo

Salt

Chef

CircleCI

Backstage

DevX Metrics (DORA, SPACE)

AI Enablement

Workflow Automation

AWS

Virtualization

Confident

Experienced

Some experience

Experience

Present (7 years)

PagerDuty

Senior Software Engineer

Infrastructure - Developer Experience

Participated in lobying for and founding the Developer Expereince team. Focused on improving the developer workflow through automation, tooling, and metrics.

January 2023 - February 2025

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Infrastructure - Delivery

Responsible for handling engineering wide CI/CD (CircleCI and Buildkite), ArgoCD and ArgoRollouts, IaaS (Terraform), and developer experience.

January 2018 - January 2022

Software Engineer

Product Development - Schedules, Core User Experience

Developed internal status page solution for PagerDuty using Elixir.

Lead and architected new incident assignment service which was the first microservice to extract previously synchronous work from the Rails monolith. Architected distributed Erlang based system to handle immense incident stream for the entirety of the PagerDuty platform. Written in Elixir, involved working with Aurora Postgres, Kafka, and distributed Erlang.

February 2016 - December 2020 (5 years)

Statusy

Founder & Lead Engineer

Founder of the Statusy project, a hosted status page solution. Built on top of a Flask backend with a Javascript frontend. I grew Statusy from an idea to a successful product with five-figure annual revenue. It was acquired by PagerDuty in 2018 and became part of their internal status page solution. Statusy was ultimately spun down in 2018.

July 2016 - October 2017 (1 year)

Plaid

Product Support Engineer

Assisted customers with integrating into the Plaid banking API. Corrected API issues and participated in creating internal tools to assist with customer support.

March 2015 - July 2016 (1 year)

Virtkick

Application Engineer

Employee number 1 at Virtkick, a virtualization platform. Responsible building a distributed client for host machines that enabled virtualization through a pull model from a central API. Created using Node.js, C++, and Rails. Contributed to libvirt.

Projects

Statusy

Statusy was a hosted status page solution that differntiated itself by cost and features.

It was built on top of a Flask backend with a Javascript frontend. I grew Statusy from an idea to a successful product with five-figure annual revenue.

Statusy was acquired by PagerDuty in 2018 and became part of their internal status page solution. Statusy was ultimately spun down in 2020.

Python

Flask

Javascript

Postgres

Kubernetes

Bitkumo

Bitkumo was a virtualized server hosting provider that focused on providing a no-frills virtualization platform.

It was built on the Virtkick platform, which I was the first employee. I was responsible for managing physical servers, integrations and general business operations.

Bitkumo was acquired by Virtkick in 2016 and became part of the company's product.

Virtualization

Linux Administration

React.js