Joe Galante

About Joe Galante

Full Stack Software Engineer with a backend focus, building reliable systems and APIs used in production environments.At Canopy Capital, I own and ship features across Django APIs and a React/Next.js frontend supporting financial workflows for portfolio management and trading systems. My work focuses on correctness, data integrity, and keeping system behavior predictable as complexity grows.I’ve worked on things like authorization systems, API design, async workflows, and performance improvements on high-traffic endpoints (~30% latency reduction).I’m most interested in backend and frontend work, but comfortable owning features across the stack when needed.

Experience

1. Software Engineer

   Canopy Capital Group

   Dec 2024 — Present

   Owned end-to-end delivery of core financial workflows across Django APIs and a React/Next.js frontend, supporting platform growth to several hundred daily users and >$1B AUM.• Designed and rolled out a centralized RBAC and object-level authorization system across multi-tenant financial operations, improving security, consistency, and auditability.• Improved performance of high-traffic endpoints through query optimization and caching, reducing response times by ~30% and improving dashboard load times.• Built asynchronous processing pipelines using Google Cloud Tasks to decouple long-running trade and portfolio workflows, improving reliability under load.• Led data model evolution and migration strategy, shipping backward-compatible schema changes with zero production incidents.• Developed internal admin and monitoring tooling to track portfolio activity, trading state, and firm-level metrics.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

  Bachelors of Science, Computer Science

  2018 — 2022

• University of Pittsburgh School of Business

  Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - BSBA, Finance

  2018 — 2022

• Central Bucks High School South

  High School Diploma

  2014 — 2018