Responsible for implementing and maintaining several Tier 1 university web-based marketing and operations assets. The assets included UTSA.edu, UTSA Today (primary news outlet), a content management system, several internal management applications, and various College marketing and email communications. 

Technologies utilized: Coldfusion, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, Flash, XML, ASP, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Software Developer

• Purchased, managed, developed and sold eight single and multi-family properties in the San Antonio and Austin region
  • Projected income potential, appreciation and expenses
  • Analyzed highest and best use for land development opportunities
  • Collaborated with property managers, architects, city planners/inspectors, realtors and developers to make build new structures or make improvements to existing structures

Investor

Created web artifacts for internal and external consumption.

Technologies utilized: HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Adobe Creative Suite

Web Designer

Lead delivery of full stack efforts for 3 teams (up to 20 engineers): Network Automation, Cloud DNS and Internal Support Tools.
 •  Automated customer firewalls, load balancers and switch management; Created network security cloud with Openstack
 •  Managed $16m ARR customer bandwidth metering efforts
 •  Operated/Developed DNS control plane w/ Openstack Designate
 •  Enhanced customer ticketing and account management
 •  Technologies: Erlang, Java, Python, Chef, Rest, Angular.js, Openstack, Postgres, Salesforce, Rackspace Cloud, AWS
 •  Methodologies: Open source contributions, Agile, SOA

Software Development Manager

Product Analyst

Charged with driving the technology needs of a $1 million annual revenue eBay sales operation. Developed and deployed a full service web based eCommerce application. Integrated various back-office applications ranging from Inventory Management and eBay sales.

Technologies utilized: ASP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2, XML and Adobe Creative Suite.

Responsible for engineering on 4 teams (12 engineers): Internal administration tools, Salesforce, Customer Onboarding and Customer Control Panel
  • Engaged Engineers, Product Managers, UX Designers, Marketing and Program Managers to experiment with changes that increased customer onboarding revenue by $2.5 million ARR.
  • Enabled software change management process for IPO preparation
Unified Abuse, GDPR and Dunning processes into one account cleanup distributed system which cleared thousands of old, unused customer resources, impacting resource availability and clearing months of bad debt
  • Instituted UX collaborations to prepare for significant design improvements to internal Ruby monolith admin application
  • Migrated key user & account data entities into micro services and databases
  • Managed substantial support organization changes include 33% growth in support agent staffing; complete turn over of support management staff and substantial updates to ticket SLOs in Salesforce

Senior Engineering Manager

I leverage the art and science of personal mastery to empower and inspire people to excel in their personal and professional lives.

Apprentice

This was my first tech leadership role. It's when I really learned the value of listening to your team and not being the smartest or most capable person in the room (those folks are so talented!). I considered myself chief enabler of a 24/7 team of 5 software testers, engineers and customer support techs.

Software Development Engineer in Test Lead

• Enterprise Partner Consulting & Integration: Served as lead technical consultant with top 20 global insurance org. Advised on integration methods for Stripe credit card processing/cash flow, user SSO (OIDC/OAuth 2.0), data feeds, and REST APIs.
  • Partner Sales Agent Business Line: Lead 22 engineers and an Engineering Manager to orchestrate the launch of a Partner facing business line; scaled to 25% of ARR. We built features for partners: reporting; user dashboards; quoting API; auth8/authZ; sales funnel tracking for 10,000 users
  • Partner Underwriting: Launched an integrated Underwriting Workbench used by Underwriters from Bestow’s reinsurance partner. The system leveraged several internal & external integrations to provide near instant underwriting analysis and decision making workflows.

Launching the 0DIN AI Bug Bounty Program. Become a researcher with us or learn about our security products at http://0din.ai/

Previously worked on Fakespot, a 2023 Mozilla acquisition. We use machine learning to create safe, privacy first shopping and AI experiences for Firefox and other browser users. My role is to lead the engineering team building browser extensions, highly scalable web services and finding real world applications for AI using large language models, classification models and more.

Some of the fascinating products we have built include:
• Trusted Deals - a privacy first advertising platform that serves trustworthy products
• Orbit - a privacy first AI agent browser extension
• Deep Fake Detector - an AI generated content detector extension
• Fakespot Shopping - a high performance data mining, aggregation and analysis system that leverages machine learning and supports over 1 million weekly active users
• Firefox URL Bar shopping integration - a client side, privacy

Software Engineering Manager

Know about Joe McBride's work experience, education, bootcamps, certifications, and much more. Joe McBride