Joel Ewaldo

About Me

Halo! I'm Joel Ewaldo

I'm currently working as an Associate SWE @ Life.Church. I've written software trusted by nonprofits like Compassion International and the University of California, Irvine. Jesus inspires me to write code that serves people and makes a meaningful difference in their everyday lives.

Currently based in Edmond, Oklahoma.

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Work

Work experience.

Life.Church

Associate Software Engineer

Building and maintaining web applications on the Digital Products team.

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  • Working as an Associate Software Engineer on the Digital Products team.
  • Developing and maintaining web applications using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.js.
  • Working in agile sprints and using Jira to track delivery.

Compassion International

DevOps Intern

Supported infrastructure and deployment workflows for a global platform.

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  • Contributed to mission-driven technology solutions as a DevOps intern.
  • Supported infrastructure and deployment processes for a global child sponsorship platform.
  • Collaborated with development teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and system reliability.
  • Gained hands-on experience with cloud technologies and DevOps best practices.

Language and Learning Analytics Lab - UCI

Software Developer

Built research software spanning dashboards, chat systems, and backend APIs.

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  • Developed an interactive web dashboard using Next.js, Bun, React, and Tailwind CSS for AI-collaboration experiment management.
  • Engineered real-time chat rooms with Flask and Socket.IO for participant and AI agent interactions.
  • Built Django API endpoints with Clerk authentication and PostgreSQL for secure data storage.
  • Deployed on AWS with EC2, RDS, Terraform, and Ansible.

Projects

Featured projects.

Two projects I want to lead with right now. The full archive lives on the dedicated projects page.

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Snowbliss Cafe

A catering and pre-order website built on a tight deadline with live menu updates and Stripe payments.

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Statpass

A sports-focused mobile startup with a React Native app, Firebase backend, and polished marketing site.

Education

Education.

2025

University of California, Irvine

B.S. Software Engineering

Graduated with a focus on software engineering and applied product development.

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Writing

Latest articles from Medium.

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Jan 14, 20265 min read

The <base> Tag Broke Safari’s Autofill in Production — Here’s Why

No errors. No console warnings. No obvious fixes. Safari’s password autofill refused to work in production. The Jira ticket that started it all. After wrapping up a few simple tic...

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