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joescharf/README.md

Joe Scharf - Fractional CTO

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hello and welcome ๐Ÿ‘‹

Current status and focus (2024)

  • Leading software development teams for early to mid-stage startups as a Fractional CTO
  • Launched DBSnapper app.

Working On and Projects (2024)

  • DBSnapper - DBSnapper automates the process of data snapshotting and de-identification.

DBSnapper Logo

DBSnapper

Subset, Snapshot, Sanitize, Share

Background

Over 20 years leading software and product for cloud startups (ex. VPE @ SendGrid, VPProd @ Automox, Techstars).

Active full-stack and founding engineer roles, I have built SaaS systems from the first-line-of-code that now support hundreds of thousands of transactions per year.

In my earlier career I was an embedded software engineer in the Aerospace and Telecommunications industries, developing in C and C++ on VxWorks and Embedded Linux (Buildroot) operating systems

Where to find me:

Experience Highlights

A chronological look at some of my accomplishments

Scratch Kitchen

Founding Engneer role building the SaaS platform from scratch to support internal operations and customer-facing interactions for a digitally-native cloud kitchen startup. Recruited and managed engineering and product teams to scale buildout of the platform.

Automox

Head of Product recruited to give a struggling patch management cloud service a second chance at finding product market fit. Set product vision and created corresponding product roadmaps to bring a new set of partnership and customer-informed features to market.

Sendgrid ๐Ÿš€

First employee and part of executive team, held multiple leadership roles across customer success and product, culminating in VP of Engineering. Instrumental in scaling product development during a rapid growth and chaotic phase of the company. Contributions grew revenue from 0-65MM ARR.

A fantastic company and wonderful people. The highlight of my career to-date.

Techstars

Managed and supported the activities and logistics for the inaugural two cohorts of startups for TechStars Boulder

Ball Aerospace

Built the Quaternion Star Sensor Head Simulator (QSSHSIM) on VxWorks and Embedded Linux operating systems. This simulator was used to diagnose issues with star trackers on the Deep Impact satellite mission. Also contributed to other terrestrial and orbital missions.

Carrier Access

Wrote embedded C++ code for the network synchronization subsystem of an OC12-DS1 SONET multiplexer. Developed code and diagnosed EEPROM failures in a DS3-DS1 multiplexer.

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  1. dbsnapper/terraform-provider-dbsnapper dbsnapper/terraform-provider-dbsnapper Public

    Go

  2. dbsnapper/install-dbsnapper-agent-action dbsnapper/install-dbsnapper-agent-action Public

    Install the DBSnapper Agent in a GitHub Actions Workflow

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  3. dbsnapper/dbsnapper dbsnapper/dbsnapper Public

    Easy database snapshots for development and testing

    HTML 9 1