I'm Joseph Staley, a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable digital platforms across healthcare, education, and consumer domains.\n\nI specialize in frontend frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, and Vue, while owning backend services across Python, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, and Ruby. I have deep experience delivering regulated healthcare systems with HIPAA compliance, EHR integrations, and interoperable clinical data standards. I'm known for end-to-end ownership, pragmatic architecture, and close collaboration with product, clinical, and engineering teams.

Joseph Staley

I'm Joseph Staley, a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable digital platforms across healthcare, education, and consumer domains.\n\nI specialize in frontend frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, and Vue, while owning backend services across Python, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, and Ruby. I have deep experience delivering regulated healthcare systems with HIPAA compliance, EHR integrations, and interoperable clinical data standards. I'm known for end-to-end ownership, pragmatic architecture, and close collaboration with product, clinical, and engineering teams.

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I’m Joseph Staley, a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable digital platforms across healthcare, education, and consumer domains.\n\nI specialize in frontend frameworks like React, Next.js, Angular, and Vue, while owning backend services across Python, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, and Ruby. I have deep experience delivering regulated healthcare systems with HIPAA compliance, EHR integrations, and interoperable clinical data standards. I’m known for end-to-end ownership, pragmatic architecture, and close collaboration with product, clinical, and engineering teams.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at Solulab
April 1, 2022 - Present
Led end-to-end development of HIPAA-compliant clinician and patient portals using React and Next.js; improved Core Web Vitals and reduced abandonment across critical workflows by ~38%. Owned frontend architecture, including state management, data fetching strategies, accessibility, and performance budgets to sustain clinical usage under load. Built and maintained backend services with Python (FastAPI), Node.js, .NET, Java, and Go, supporting eligibility checks, claims workflows, document processing, and EHR-facing APIs. Implemented asynchronous workflows with Kafka and cloud queues, plus idempotent retry patterns, reducing failures during peak healthcare traffic by ~35%. Integrated SMART-on-FHIR workflows with Epic and Cerner, modeling FHIR R4 resources end-to-end. Introduced Redis caching and pagination strategies to improve API latency by ~41%. Established testing practices (Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, pytest) and end-to-end integration tests for healthcare-crit
Software Developer at PIESOFT
February 1, 2018 - March 1, 2022
Developed Angular-based telehealth, scheduling, and real-time interfaces; built React-based scheduling and eligibility modules; integrated Twilio video and messaging to support secure telehealth visits and virtual classrooms. Implemented backend-for-frontend services in Node.js and Python to normalize payloads and reduce API chatter by ~40%. Built and supported backend services using Python (Django, FastAPI), Spring Boot, .NET, and Ruby on Rails to process EDI transactions, eligibility checks, and secure messaging. Implemented HL7 and FHIR data transformations using Python and message queues to ensure auditable healthcare data exchange. Introduced GraphQL APIs with resolver batching and persisted queries to stabilize performance. Automated CI pipelines and infrastructure using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Terraform, improving release stability. Worked with designers, product managers, and backend engineers to balance compliance with consumer UX.
Software Developer at Matellio
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2018
Delivered React, Angular, and Vue applications for healthcare analytics, educational dashboards, and media discovery platforms. Built data-heavy dashboards with D3 for visualizing longitudinal clinical and educational datasets. Implemented provider search, appointment scheduling, and ICD-10/LOINC lookups with optimized rendering and client-side caching. Collaborated with backend engineers on API design, validation, pagination, and error handling to support complex UIs. Built and supported backend services using Python and Node.js for data normalization, reporting, and early analytics pipelines. Integrated Elasticsearch-backed search to improve discovery, and implemented Redis caching and server-driven pagination to stabilize UI performance under load. Built secure document upload workflows using pre-signed URLs and background processing, reducing submission failures by ~27%. Established accessibility and performance standards to reduce time-to-interactive.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Baylor University
August 1, 2010 - May 1, 2014

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Industry Experience

Healthcare, Education, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Consumer Goods