Joel Rainwater

@rain2o
Software Engineer | Fractional CTO | Indie Hacker
Dublin, Ireland
He/Him

Black Lives Matter

Software Engineer

Build in Public

Indie Hacker

Husband

Metalhead

Dungeons & Dragons

College Dropout

Dog Dad

eCommerce

Open Source Contributor

Magento

Software Developer

VueJS

Expat

Side Hustle

Self-Taught

JavaScript

Life Long Learner

Musician

Coding

Web Developer

Consultant

Software Engineering

Audio Engineer

React

Node.js

Backend Developer

PHP

Documentation

Laravel

Full Stack Developer

TypeScript

TailwindCSS

NextJS

Cosplayer

Full Stack Development

Audiophile

TTRPG player

Ireland

Hello there!

I am an avid coder, always finding new things to work on, and never having enough time to do it.

During the day I am a full-stack web developer with a focus on e-commerce (Magento 2 & Vue Storefront). Additionally I currently spend some of my time as a fractional CTO for a pet services startup in Paris. What little time I have left is focused on indie hacking my own projects.

When I'm not constantly working, I travel as much as possible (well, I used to... thanks COVID!) with my wife. We are enjoying our life in France, experiencing new cultures as much as possible.

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I'm open to

speaking on podcasts,

freelance roles,

advising companies,

speaking at events,

beta testing new products,

co-founding a company,

and playing tabletop games.

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Resume

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Jul 2022 - Present

Software Engineer, Arista Networks

Jul 2019 - Present

Fractional CTO, Tout Pour Le Toutou

Sep 2015 - Present

Soundboard Specialist (volunteer), Dragon Con

Apr 2021 - Present

Founder, Status Tracker

Portfolio

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I am going to be writing a new series about web developer tools, bridging the knowledge gap between writing code and building a project. https://blog.rainwater.io/2022/07/02/web-developer-tools-fun...

I have released my first public native mobile app - Unity Weather. The app is a simple weather app, with one unique distinction - it displays all measurements in both imperial and metric. I built i...

My Cosplace now have its final core feature available for early access users - purchasing cards. You can currently build your own card using one of our three card templates, and order them any vary...

My Cosplace has been released in Early Access! Due to some complications and time-consuming struggles, I switched the project to be built on Next.js and hosted on Vercel. The core feature of the vi...

Side projects

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My latest project has been released in closed beta - Unsheetly Build KPI dashboards using data from Google Sheets without code or sheet functions. It was featured on BetaList which is already bring...

https://mycosplace.com I launched a landing page for my latest project - My Cosplace. The project is still being built and I am collecting interest in the meantime. My Cosplace is intended to make ...

I have completed the MVP of my first SaaS app - https://statustracker.app/. As of right now, access is limited for Early Access users. You can sign up for early access on the dashboard.

How do you want to do this? This is a fun project idea I had, to randomly watch a "How do you want to do this?" moment from the internet show Critical Role. It was also a way for me to spend some m...

Blog posts

I have started a new blog where I write about my travels with my wife, where things usually wind up going wrong for us. I've finished the first post. https://rainwaters.substack.com/p/how-not-to-do...

After building my first SaaS app, I wrote up this article which explains a little of the technical side of things. https://dev.to/rain2o/i-built-my-first-saas-on-next-js-21o

Headless Magento - Using Frontend URLs in Emails After building a headless shop using Magento 2 as the backend, I wrote this article to show how we handled the problem with email templates trying t...

Using field dependency in Magento 2 I wrote a blog post to break down how to implement field dependency using core Magento features. This is a common question asked around Stack Overflow, and there...