Joseph Lenton

Joseph Lenton is a Full Stack Engineering Tech Lead with a strong background in Rust and TypeScript, boasting over 5 years of Rust experience and more than 10 years working with TypeScript.

Currently, Joseph leads a team at Vortexa, where he guides others in Rust, contributes to high-performance data pipeline development, and addresses challenging problems to process large volumes of data efficiently for enhanced user information.

With a robust technical skill set, Joseph is proficient in various technologies such as AWS, Kafka, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, Rust, TypeScript, Vite, ESBuild, Storybook, Github Actions, CircleCI, and Docker, focusing on service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, and data pipelines.

He also brings prior experience with technologies like PHP, Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, Java, and Jenkins. Joseph's work approach emphasizes a product-centric mindset, aligning team efforts with business and user requirements, breaking down complex projects into smaller tasks, and employing agile methodologies for precise project estimations.

In the realm of startups, Joseph played a significant role at Attest during its early stages, contributing as the first Engineer and witnessing the company's growth to over 150 individuals. He actively contributes to open-source projects, with his latest project Axum-Test available on crates.io.

Joseph Lenton holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent and has held key roles at organizations like Faculty, Attest, Vortexa, Play My Code, Greenfoot, and HSBC throughout his career.