# Joey L.

> Software Engineer specializing in backends for scalable, highly-available web applications

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joeyl

I have over a decade of experience as a tech lead building highly-available Web applications. I have worked with a wide variety of technologies and programming languages. My current favorites are golang and rust, though I am experienced in C/C++, JavaScript, python, php, and ruby.

Some highlights across my career include:

- Directing and writing tools to perform production database migrations with zerodowntime
- Designing highly scalable low latency event-driven architectures in the cloud
- Designing and implementing incident management policies and procedures
- Building out telemetry and logging systems for enterprise products
- Creating efficient, cost-effective systems at scale

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Metal
Jan 2024 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Responsible for chat and agents platform. I have implemented Metal's proprietary agentic framework that drives Metal's workflows and chat experiences.

### Senior Software Engineer @ BeReal.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
On the product features team I have applied my experience in enterprise software to lead development on features to fuel user growth and engagement

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Joining Meta as part of its acquisition of Kustomer, I served as Tech Lead on the Kustomer side collaborating with Meta Production Engineers on integration. I was promoted shortly before Meta divested itself from Kustomer.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Kustomer
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
At Kustomer I helped lead the backend team to a successful acquisition exit. My proudest achievement was the development of an in-house event bus that could reliably handle throughput of millions of messages per second with 100% success rate. Additionally I served as lead of the Backend Engineering Guild and the Architecture Guild, and worked closely with engineers on all teams to design scalable and highly reliable features.

### Developer @ SWARM.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area

### Product Development Manager @ HDtracks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015
Project Manager
Internal Tools Programmer
Front-End Designer & Developer
Ecommerce Marketing and Analytics

### Marketing Associate @ Demand Media
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Kirkland, WA
Managed and executed up to 11 digital marketing campaigns simultaneously with an emphasis on social media, email marketing and digital ads. I implemented a framework for tracking and reporting that we've used to make our campaigns more effective. I've worked closely with other departments on new product development and integrated marketing efforts.

### Technical Support Supervisor @ Demand Media
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Supervised a team of approximately 8 employees.  This included managing time cards, handling escalated customer issues, coordinating and approving time off, composing and delivering performance reviews, interviewing potential employees and providing feedback about candidates, and finding ways for the department to function with greater efficiency.

Transferred to the Marketing Department in April 2010.


## Education
### Seattle Central College


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13