Current focus
Joe is the CTO at ez Home Search and co-founder of Sure Send. He has led engineering for startups, venture studios, consulting clients, and developer platforms, repeatedly turning early ideas into working, scalable products.
Company work
Experience
ez Home Search, Inc.
Leads engineering and architecture for ez Home Search's national home search platform and architected Sure Send, an AI CRM for growing teams with real estate roots. Built the CRM platform, integrations, lead intelligence, contact workflows, and team operating systems while leading the engineering team behind the product.
eMYRge
Supports entrepreneurial growth and innovation across the Myrtle Beach startup community.
Prota Ventures
Led engineering and architecture across startup builds including ChargerHelp, Indifit, and CraftB2B.
Alphi.xyz
Helped build a platform focused on transparency in the world of digital collectibles.
Guide Book
Led technology for a platform helping people discover guided adventures and helping guides run their businesses more efficiently.
Hosting Playground Inc.
Founded and operated early Ruby on Rails hosting and hosted source-control products including RailsPlayground, SVNRepository, and SourceRepo.
Operating pattern
The through-line is practical product execution: define the system, ship the core workflow, and keep improving until the company can run on it.
CTO
National real estate search platform with up-to-the-minute listings, local market pages, saved searches, home valuation tools, and connections to vetted local experts.
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AI-powered CRM for growing teams with lead scoring, smart automations, built-in dialer, email deliverability tools, contact management, open API, and native integrations.
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Task-based time tracking, project cost tracking, and invoicing product that syncs with Asana, Trello, Monday, and Basecamp, then helps teams invoice through Stripe, PayPal, QuickBooks, or manual payments.
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Early Ruby on Rails hosting company with developer hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, reseller hosting, Passenger/mod_rails support, SSH access, cPanel, and Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Redmine, and Trac tooling.
Visit projectFounder
Subversion hosting service with an easy control panel, Trac automation, Bugzilla support, unlimited developers per repository, HTTPS/HTTP access, nightly offsite backups, and migration help.
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Secure source-code hosting for Git, Subversion, and Mercurial with permission-based repository setup, Redmine or Trac project management, hook integrations, secure SSH/HTTPS access, and hourly backups.
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SSL monitoring product that checked certificates daily, verified domain and port configuration, sent expiration reminders, and supported email plus SMS alerts for certificate issues.
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WHMCS-integrated monitoring product for hosting companies with distributed check servers, automated failover, SMS and API alerts, custom server checks, response-time reporting, and package-based billing.
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Marketplace and operating platform for guided outdoor adventures, connecting people to reviewed local guides while giving guides and outfitters tools to list trips, manage schedules, and take bookings.
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Digital collectibles information platform built around community-reviewed project archives, ambassador moderation, leaderboards, and project-focused posts.
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EV charging reliability company offering Reliability as a Service and EMPWR technology to diagnose charger issues, improve uptime, and coordinate remote or in-field resolution.
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Fitness startup product work completed through a venture-studio model, focused on turning an early product concept into working software.
Engineering partner
B2B craft beverage ordering platform for retailers and self-distributing breweries, with one fresh sheet, sortable product data, beer search and filters, multi-brewery carts, order history, invoices, and license document storage.
Visit projectEngineering partner
AED commerce and safety platform selling defibrillators, pads, batteries, accessories, training resources, and AED management and maintenance compliance programs.
Visit projectRuby on Rails, PHP, Java, product architecture, and startup engineering.
Board President for eMYRge, supporting entrepreneurs in Myrtle Beach.
M.S. Software Engineering from Regis University and B.S. Computer Information Systems from Clemson University.
Recognition
Winner of Startup Weekend Myrtle Beach
Winner of the Make More Money Challenge at the World's Largest Hackathon presented by Bolt
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