# Joseph Thaxton

> Senior Software Engineer at Forge

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephthaxton

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Forge
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Splunk
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ Forge
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Forge
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech: Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, Scala, GraphQL, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, PostgreSQL
Practices: Domain Driven Design, Functional Programming, Event Sourcing, CQRS

### Audit Associate @ KPMG
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Reviewed SQL code to gain comfort over the internal controls of an entity.
- Walkthroughs to gain an understanding of the internal controls of an entity. 
- Substantive procedures and tests of operating effectiveness to gain comfort over the completeness, existence, accuracy, and valuation of an account of an entity.

### Audit Intern, Asset Management @ KPMG
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Alternative Investments - Venture Capital and Hedge Funds
Banking

### Staff Accountant @ Dot & Bo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Year-end PBCs for first year audit

Cash forecasting

Month end close responsibilities: All cash accounts, fixed assets/depreciation, credit card liabilities, deposits, deferred rent, commissions, accrued liabilities, prepaid expenses/amortization, debt issuance cost

Inventory cycle count, data testing/review

Various projects with deferred revenue

Fraud analysis

Chargebacks

Software (primary tools/functions used):
Excel (vlookup, pivot tables, trace precedents/dependents, conditional formatting etc.)
Quickbooks (Bank reconciliations, bank feeds, audit trail, journal entry)
Signifyd (fraud analysis)
Looker


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree
University of California, Berkeley

### Accounting
UC Extension


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01