Joseph Olkowitz

Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years building event-driven backends and APIs that automate high-friction workflows. Comfortable owning complex systems end-to-end, from architecture to IaC, in fast-moving engineering orgs.

Senior Software Engineer - FanDuel - Remote

(2022-11)

• Led development on a kubernetes orchestrated and dockerized FastAPI service with redis and celery for compliance monitoring - leveraging Datadog, Jira, Slack API, and Buildkite GraphQL integrations.
• Led development of an internal service that automated release-note generation - saving 500+ engineer-hours per year in manual effort, saving $10,000$+ in costs, and improved efficiency and scalability. Utilizing AWS serverless infrastructure, Python, JIRA webhooks, event driven architecture, and asynchronous calls.
• Built and enhanced deployment change-tracking pipelines and plugins integrating Buildkite and AWS services, improving traceability and reporting accuracy.
• Owned and expanded IaC (Terraform) for team AWS environments; enabling secure, repeatable, and scalable deployments.
• Created and implemented AI agents with Claude for increasing productivity for everyday tasks.

Backend Engineer - LeafLink - Remote

(2022-04 - 2022-09)

• Contributed to the Logistics & Fulfillment pod, supporting core fulfillment workflows.
• Built two microservices using Python, Django, NoSQL, and Vue, enabling new logistics offerings.
• Authored architectural specifications and implemented multi-warehouse inventory management, improving inventory accuracy across distributed locations.
• Utilized event-driven design to synchronize inventory data between microservices.

Full Stack Developer - JPMorgan Chase - Jersey City, NJ

(2021-07 - 2022-04)

• Built isolated AWS sandbox environments supporting internal security testing and malware analysis.
• Built a full stack, scalable application to ease the new user on-boarding process and user tasks.

Founder & Software Engineer - JAO Consulting LLC

(2025-06)

• Built and launched a suite of commercial NinjaTrader 8 addons,indicators, and strategies in C# for futures traders, sold via a Shopify storefront.
• Designed and shipped multiple products including a trade copier with real-time risk management and external order sending (Synapse Pro), order line decorator (TradePulse), and a live trade notification/journal (TradeNotifier).

BA - Business - Ursinus College Collegeville, PA