Joe is a passionate lecturer, blogger, organizer, and software engineer with a focus on creating distributed cloud systems and architectures. He is a maker, crafting cloud systems @ mabl professionally as the cloud infrastructure lead, and spending his nights and weekends crafting tech content and co-organizing the Boston GDG Cloud chapter. He also is the lead engineer and co-founder at medical analytics firm MDDetails. Joe has spoken at conferences like Google Cloud Next, GitHub Satellite, GitLab Commit, Atlassian Team, and STPCon. He is a recognized engineer, as a Google Developer Expert in cloud, Google Cloud Innovator Champion, and GitHub Champion. In the analog world, he is a dedicated husband, father, distance runner, and amateur carpenter.