Joe Broughton







My Work Experience:

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    Founder and Engineering Lead at PocketChat March 2025 - Present

    Founded, designed built and maintain a self-hostable, open-source innovative messaging stack. Features include E2EE, masked sender with signature, encryption layers, encrypted at rest, async messaging. PocketChat can boot off of any drive for enhanced portability and control. You can also host your own relay server. PocketChat.

    Investment Tech Developer at Orbis Investments July 2024 - Present

    Maintaining and developing data pipelines for investment research and analysis. Helping to drive forward new technologies for a data platform as part of the firm's data strategy initiative. Orbis.

    CTO of Moored Solutions May 2022 - July 2024

    I co-founded the company as well as designed, communicated, and developed solutions, and managed a team of developers. I helped name the company and drove the tech stack and solution architecture forward to enable the business to secure its first client. Moored Solutions.

    Lead Developer at Estudiamos Jun 2023 - Jun 2024

    I have been working on data integrations while maintaining the tech stack for the business. Estudiamos.

    Cloud Computing Consultant at edie.one Nov 2022 - Feb 2024

    Working as cloud systems support and advisor, providing wider value to the business. Edie.One.

    Remote Software Development at TouchByte Sept 2022 - Oct 2023

    Refactoring, containerising and creating deployment pipelines for the facial recognition access control software.

    Online Maths Tutor Sept 2022 - Jan 2023

    After my enjoyment and success at teaching music, I gave teaching Mathematics a try. It further enhanced my communication skills and my students thrived in a more conversation based environment. Unfortunately, I was not able to continue for much longer since the combined time of lesson planning and resource creation was not feasible to fit into my schedule.

    Drum Teacher June 2021 - Sept 2023

    I have been playing drums since 2009 and chose to take up teaching. It was an awesome journey to see the progression of others. As my first teaching role, I could see myself becoming more confident in my communication skills and the ability to attempt the same challenge with a different approach or explanation.

    Junior Developer at TouchByte Ltd Feb 2022 - July 2022

    After building an interest for artificial intelligence, I managed to get myself a week placement at TouchByte, which is a facial recognition company. I spent a week in February testing the end product for vulnerabilities and managed to uncover a few. I even remotely turned off the system!
    After my work earlier in the year, I was asked back to the company in the summer to help with the development of their API for integrating their access control system with other software. I also created maintenance scripts than run on production servers to this date that regularly check multiple aspects of the system in deployment.

    Mechanic at Steve Andrews Tyres Ltd Jul 2019 - March 2020

    Taken on after work experience to help with the fitting of tyres, batteries and brakes at my local garage.