Joe Burgess
Head Of Engineering, Product, Data, GRE TOEFL
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Burgess is a business-focused product and engineering leader and two-time startup founder with 14 years of experience building and scaling education and AI-driven products. Currently Head of Engineering, Product, and Data for GRE/TOEFL at ETS, he leads ~60 global engineers and product professionals powering high-revenue assessment platforms and previously hyperscaled teams from 20 to 150–200 in under 18 months. He founded Ribbon Education (acquired by ETS), launched generative-AI products and platform initiatives, and advises startups on agentic commerce and LLM orchestration. Comfortable both in code and strategy, his GitHub contributions show hands-on Rails backend and test-driven work, reflecting a habit of improving reliability and configuration. Known for turning small teams and early ideas into revenue-generating businesses, he blends product intuition, technical depth, and go-to-market experience.
14 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems and Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems and Economics at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Stackoverflow
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72reached
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Github Skills (16)
testing10
activerecord10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
db-schema9
database-schema9
schema9
database-design9
database-migration9
schema-design9
database-migrations9
git9
associations8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
milenoss/mod-3-code-challenge
Jul 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 9 months
jmburges/learn-co-sandbox
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:8357 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 2 months
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