Joseph Emison

Experience

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  Branch

  Co-Founder and CTO

  Apr 2018 - Present

  Branch is a full-stack insurance company that uses data, technology, and automation to make bundling home and auto insurance easier and less expensive.

  • Initial developer and architect of back-end architecture
  • Scaled the company to over $200M in annual premium and more than 400 employees
  • Raised over $230M in venture capital
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  FuelSQC

  Consulting CTO

  Oct 2015 - Present

  I have been the part-time/consulting CTO for FuelSQC, an online statistical package built specifically for the fuel and bio-fuel community, providing comprehensive quality control analytics, and control charting. We bootstrapped FuelSQC from scratch to more than $1MM in ARR over several years.

  • Built the original application in Angular 1.4 on Firebase Realtime Database
  • Redesigned and led the rebuilding of the application in React on Firestore
  • Have cost-optimized to keep run costs under $5K/year

• Spaceful

  Co-Founder and CTO

  Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

  Founded a commercial real estate SaaS product out of an incubator in Redwood City (Mach49).

  • Built and launched initial product in 3 months
  • Acquired into a larger company, where I became CIO
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  BuildFax

  Co-Founder and CTO

  Jul 2008 - Oct 2015

  I founded BuildFax to collect all the building permit data in the US. Building permit data is stored in many different formats and structures, and so I designed a pipeline that could be operated by non-technical staff that ingested the data in arbitrary formats and standardized it for analysis and sale. We had a YC-backed competitor that we beat in every head-to-head because of our data quality, and we operated with much lower overhead.

  • Designed underlying software and cloud architecture
  • Original developer for software, reporting, and analysis
  • Awarded two patents around using building permit data for roof condition
  • Built team to more than 50 employees

• EphPod

  Founder

  Oct 2001 - Jun 2008

  I built the first software to make the iPod work with Windows. I was first to market, despite being a solo developer against several companies with teams of developers working to build their own products. I released it for free, and monetized the traffic and partnerships through ads. In 2008, I sold the product and domain to Wind Solutions.

  • Built EphPod in Borland Delphi
  • Translated it in eight different languages
  • Featured in Wired, New York Times, Wall St Journal, and others
  • Sold to Wind Solutions
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  BluePrince

  Co-founder and CTO

  Jun 1998 - Sep 2004

  We founded BluePrince to put municipal building departments online. The first jurisdictions went live with BluePrince in 2000, and it's still in use across many states.

  • Designed and built the original Windows application (C++)
  • Designed and built the first web application that allows applying for and paying for building permits online
  • Built the team to more than 50 employees