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Joey Landry

Where it started

I like the moment an idea stops being hypothetical.

That started early. At nine, I set up a lemonade stand and sold bracelets in a Cape Cod neighborhood called Nyes Neck. The first year raised $50 for Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

The neighborhood kept showing up. Over nine years it grew into movie nights, raffles, apparel, live music and community events, and together we raised more than $20,000.

At Tufts I learned how to turn that same instinct into software. Today I am an associate software engineer at Fidelity, and outside of work I keep building: storefronts, content platforms, location tools, event systems and security games.

The thread is ownership. I like the whole path — from a rough idea to something real people can actually use.

“Engineer by day. Builder after hours.”

The short version.

Make-A-Wish · Nyes Neck

  1. 2013

    $50 raised

    A lemonade stand and bracelets in Nyes Neck

  2. 2013—2021

    9 years

    Movie nights, raffles, apparel, live music

  3. Total

    $20,000+

    Raised for Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island

  4. Today

    Ongoing

    Nyes Neck Clothing & Apparel supports St. Jude

The coworker

Meet Donny.

Every late-night build ships with a second opinion.

Then

Donny as a kitten in a checkered collar, sitting on a desk and looking into the camera next to a guitar headstock.
First day on the job.
Donny as a kitten sitting on top of a bongo drum, mid nose-lick, with a lamp and a wooden chest behind.
On drums.
Donny as a kitten held up in one hand against a bright blue sky, mouth open mid-meow.
Loud from day one.

Now

Close-up of Donny grown up, staring into the camera wide-eyed with the tip of the tongue out, on a sunny wood floor.
Code review.
Donny grown up, lounging on a window seat with one paw stretched along the sill, gazing outside.
Monitoring production.
Donny grown up, belly-up on a hardwood floor in a doorway, paws in the air.
Out of office.

Toolbox

What I reach for, and why.

Scoped to the things I've actually shipped with — the production work above is where each of these earned its place.

Product engineering

The layer people actually touch.

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Responsive design

Backend & data

State, identity and the contracts between them.

  • Node.js patterns
  • REST & API routes
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Database design
  • Authentication & session design

Content & commerce

Systems a non-developer can run after launch.

  • Sanity CMS
  • Printful integration
  • Formspree
  • Content modeling
  • E-commerce architecture

Maps & discovery

Putting things where people can find them.

  • Leaflet
  • Geocoding & data synchronization
  • Location-aware interfaces

Also working in

Languages outside the front of the stack.

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Java
  • C

Engineering workflow

How the work gets shipped and kept honest.

  • Git & version control
  • Agile collaboration
  • CI concepts
  • Testing
  • Linting & type checking
  • Vercel deployment

What I'm exploring

Open questions I keep circling back to.

01

AI-assisted development

How much of the distance between an idea and a working product AI actually removes — and which parts of engineering judgement it does not.

02

AI and cybersecurity

The new attack surfaces AI creates, how it changes vulnerability discovery, and where it can carry real weight in defensive automation. An active interest, and the direction I am reading and building toward.

03

Small products, real communities

Focused digital products that make a specific group of people better off — a neighborhood, a taproom, a table of friends — rather than software built for everyone and no one.