# Joe McCormick

> Principal Software Engineer at Babylist

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joemccormick

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Babylist
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Babylist
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Director Of Engineering @ SplitSpot
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Transitioned the company from a Drag and Drop Wix website to a new site built on Ruby on Rails (PostgreSQL/Hot wire/StimulusJS/Bootstrap)
The app uses ActiveAdmin on the backend and was heavily built using Test Driven Development with RSpec
Integrated the new Rails application with many existing business processes by building out a custom Zapier app
Hired four software engineers to join the SplitSpot team
Managed the Analytics Team, helping transition to a SQL based approach and a new business intelligence tool (Metabas

### Software Engineering Manager @ ezCater
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Led teams of between 3-5 engineers to build out projects in our various technologies (mostly Ruby on Rails/GraphQL/React/CSS)
• Acted as a "player coach" spending about 50% of the time on coding/technical leadership, 25% on people management and 25% on product/project management
• For people management, handled weekly 1:1s, semiannual performance reviews, career pathing and was hiring manager for multiple roles
• Built out the company's first production ready python microservice which was responsible for generating dynamic food orders that matched a user's constraints

### Senior Software Engineer @ ezCater
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Led the build out of a re-vamped Caterer Portal which transitioned from a full stack Ruby on Rails app to a Rails GraphQL back end and a React Front End
• Worked across teams to standardize best practices as the company transitioned to GraphQL
• Acted as a "Squad Lead" which involved handling product/project management tasks for the squad (creating user stories, leading stand-ups, etc.)
• Created many dashboards to analyze and make product decisions using SQL in our business intelligence tool (Periscope Data)

### Software Engineer @ ezCater
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Boston, MA
• Developed projects and features in the company's Ruby on Rails monolith (PostgreSQL/HTML/CSS/ jQuery) that impacted all facets of the business
• Lead the build out of a new task management system for the customer service team which allowed processing over 100x the number of orders
• Heavily involved in the interview process to help the engineering team double in size year over year for 4+ years

### Teaching Fellow @ Harvard University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA
•	Teaching Assistant for Computer Science 50, Introduction to Computer Science I
•	Lead section of 15 students, reviewing course materials
•	Run weekly office hours for entire class to answer specific questions on course

### Software Engineer Intern @ Leaf
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA
•	Developed various pages on Leaf Business web platform for merchant use, utilizing Ruby on Rails and JavaScript/jQuery
•	Implemented labor reporting system to allow merchants to log and track their employees’ hours as well as salary/tips earned during a specified time period
•	Designed user settings section including full flow to allow the addition and removal of payment types from the user’s device 
•	Created reports to showcase a variety of metrics to users including item sales and transaction history

### Intern @ Institute for Human Centered Design
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Boston, MA
•	Outreach coordinator for assistive technology conference/ trade show
•	Researched potential vendors & attendees, successfully signing many vendors to attend
•	Tested/reviewed sites for web accessibility with a screen reader program


## Education
### A.B. in Computer Science
Harvard University

### Malden Catholic High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joemccormickjr

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Last updated: 2026-03-31