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Joey Orlando

Joey Orlando

Founding Engineer

Montréal, CA
English, French, Italian

Background


About

About

Former biochemist (Harvard & McGill) turned software engineer. Over over 10 years of broad software experience, in both product and consulting environments, with a focus on backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data engineering. Authorized to work in the European Union, USA & Canada.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Founding Engineer, Archestra.ai

    Aug, 2025 - Present

  • Engineering Manager, Grafana Labs

    Feb, 2025 - Aug, 20256 months

  • Staff Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

    Sep, 2022 - Feb, 20252 years 5 months

    • Key team-member on a 15 person team which was responsible for the Grafana OnCall web and mobile apps. Led several multi-team, cross-functional projects, such as completely redesigning our authnz setup to support RBAC, support for our new mobile app, as well as several product features (ex. Shift Swaps) that I proposed and saw through from design doc to implementation and support

    • Was constantly on the look-out for ways to improve the team's processes and code quality. I proposed and built our team's first e2e tests on CI. I also proposed a new set of processes to improve the team's project management processes, making it easier to build our backlog, track in-flight work, and improve our sprint planning.

    • Worked closely with our support and product teams to address customer escalations and also give demos to new potential customers.

  • Senior Software Engineer, CircleCI

    Apr, 2022 - Sep, 20225 months

    • Was a key full-stack engineer on a 10 person team that managed several high-traffic microservices + a popular open-source CLI project

    • Mentored, and regularly pair-programmed with, more junior engineers on the team

    • Within less than one month, became a key contributor to our team's clojure services (a language which I previously had zero experience in).

  • Data Engineer, GrowFlow

    Apr, 2021 - Feb, 202210 months

    • Engineered a custom MongoDb data extraction script (Python) to read from 300+ Mongo databases and load into our data warehouse

    • Worked on both the frontend (React/next.js) and backend (node/TypeScript) of our cusotmer-facing analytics product. Backend work involved architecting a brand-new authorization microservice for the company.

    • Built dozens of dbt models to support our both our customer facing analytics application as well as internal BI reporting dashboards.

  • Data Engineer, McKinsey & Company (Quantum Black)

    Nov, 2020 - Apr, 20215 months

    • Consulted a global CPG company. Built data pipelines to move over 60TB of data from Azure to GCP. Engineered over 2000 features, using dbt, that were used by our team's data scientists to build predictive models and BI dashboards.

  • Data Scientist, Lightspeed

    Mar, 2019 - Sep, 20201 year 6 months

    • Automated the company's GTV (Gross Transactional Volume) metric calculation. Involved building an anomaly detection classification model to flag fake transactions. The V1 random forest model was then later simplied to a median absolute deviation from median algorithm to improve the model's interpretability.

    • Developed the team's Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

    • Worked daily with advanced/expert level SQL concepts and often with large/complex queries (500+ line)

  • Senior Software Developer, Lightspeed

    Oct, 2018 - Mar, 20195 months

    • Initial team member of the company's first microservice team. Involved in all early stage discussions/planning of the microservice related to infrastructure, deployment, database, monitoring, etc.

    • Developed a large portion of the initial POC in Golang.

    • Engineered a docker-compose setup to make local development of the service much more efficient

  • Software Engineer II, Shutterstock

    Aug, 2016 - Oct, 20182 years 2 months

    • Full stack developer on the office's internal tools team. Built web applications (Python + React + Jenkins + k8s) for other teams at the company, to ease/automate their processes.

  • Research Associate - Protein Engineering, Harvard University

    Jul, 2014 - Nov, 20151 year 4 months

    • Part of a multi-disciplinary team involved in designing a therapeutic device for the treament of sepsis.

    • Expressed, purified, and characterized novel fusion proteins for various therapeutic applications.

  • Co-Founder & CTO, 100 Danish

    Oct, 2013 - May, 20206 years 7 months

    • Co-founder/CTO of the six team-member creative agency

    • Lead developer on 5 full-stack (Python + React + GCP/Terraform) web application development projects. Often interfaced directly with external clients to understand the project's goals and features.

  • Research Associate - Antibody Engineering, Berg Health

    Jun, 2013 - Jul, 20141 year 1 month

    • Cultivated hybridoma cells to produce monoclonal antibodies which were later affinity purified on AKTA Pure system

    • Developed several diagnostic ELISA assays with in-house purified monoclonal antibodies

Skills

Skills

  • Software Engineering

    Python

    Node (TypeScript)

    Cloud Infrastructure (GCP + AWS)

    clojure

    Golang

    Terraform

    k8s

    CI/CD

    SQL

    dbt

    BigQuery

    Web Scraping

Education

Education

  • Protein Biochemistry, Doctorate, McGill University

    Jan, 2016 - Jun, 2016

  • Biology & Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, York College of Pennsylvania

    Sep, 2009 - May, 2013

    Cum Laude Honors
Awards

Awards

  • York College "10 Under '10" Award , York College of PA Office of Alumni Relations

    Awarded on: Apr 01, 2014

  • Honorable Mention for Excellence in Research , Berg Health

    Awarded on: Dec 01, 2013

  • Athletic Honor Roll , York College of Pennsylvania

    Awarded on: May 01, 2013

  • All-Academic Team , NCAA Capital Athletic Conference

    Awarded on: May 01, 2012

    Awarded to NCAA student athletes holding >3.5 cumulative GPA

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Director of Nerdy Marketing, iNERDE

    Jan, 2014 - Jan, 2015

    Traveled to Bamako, Mali during the summer of 2014 to teach STEM to children during our summer camp.

  • Firefighter, Avalon Volunteer Fire Department

    May, 2010 - May, 2013

  • Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Avalon Rescue Squad

    May, 2010 - May, 2013

Interests

Interests

  • Biking

  • Hiking

  • Running

  • Travelling