Available · Tri-Cities, WA

Joe Nicora

Full-stack developer building production web applications with SvelteKit, Fastify, and MongoDB — with Claude Code in the loop.

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Twenty years building production web applications, with focus on frontend architecture, design systems, and developer tooling. Currently working in SvelteKit with a Fastify and MongoDB backend, and Claude Code in the development loop.

Recent work spans a modular SvelteKit framework with build-time scaffolding and per-module manifest merging, an AI-assisted diagnostic for semantic drift in long-running conversations, and a generative worldbuilding pipeline with structured constraint enforcement. Comfortable across the full stack — schema design, REST APIs, RBAC and session auth, audit logging, and Docker-based dev environments — with frontend architecture as the primary specialty.

Bias toward legible systems: clear module boundaries, predictable build pipelines, and component libraries that survive contact with real product requirements. Based in the Tri-Cities, WA, available for contract and full-time work.

Current
SvelteKit 2Svelte 5TypeScriptSkeleton v4Tailwind v4Fastify v5MongoDB 7Docker ComposeNode 22
Frontend
SvelteReactReduxStyled ComponentsTailwindSASSLESSTiptaplucide
Backend
Node.jsFastifyREST APIs@fastify/sessionbcryptjsRBACNodemailer / SMTP
Data
MongoDBschema designNetSuite REST
Tooling
Docker ComposeViteWebpacknpmbuild pipelinesE2E & unit testingClaude CodeOllama
Prior
AngularJSKnockoutJSBackbone.jsJava Freemarker
2020
2026

Independent Development — Career Break

Extended leave for health reasons; maintained technical practice through independent projects. Built Architectonic, a full-stack scaffold with auth, RBAC, audit logging, in-app messaging, and a CLI-driven module system.

Integrated Claude Code into day-to-day development workflow for architecture review, refactoring, and accelerated implementation.

StackSvelteKit 2 · Svelte 5 · TypeScript · Tailwind v4 · Fastify v5 · MongoDB 7 · Docker
2018
2020

Sr. Technical Manager

Led frontend architecture across the application portfolio: build pipelines, component design, testing, and deployment. Built custom React modules for legal-industry workflows that had no off-the-shelf equivalent. Consolidated unmanaged toolkits into supported internal libraries, reducing release cycles and internal support load.

StackReact · Redux · Styled Components · Webpack · Jest · Cypress
2017
2018

Software Architect

Built Node.js tooling to automate repository management and project scaffolding for the web team. Designed reusable UI modules and ecommerce templates for SuiteCommerce Advanced. Implemented customer-facing features against the NetSuite REST API on a customized Backbone.js base.

StackNode.js · Backbone.js · NetSuite REST · SuiteCommerce
2014
2017

Software Developer / UX Lead

UX lead on a multi-developer team; converted high-fidelity prototypes into shipping products within the team's framework constraints. Delivered both internal laboratory support applications and experimental research-facing tools.

StackAngularJS · KnockoutJS · SASS
2011
2014

Lead UI Engineer

Architected a Java Freemarker tag library for a large-scale Transportation Management System. Integrated frontend security, device-context handling (mobile vs desktop), and enterprise workflow rules.

StackJava · Freemarker · JavaScript · LESS
Location Tri-Cities, WA
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