About
Joe Cook
Full-Stack Engineer · AI Systems & Architecture

I design and build production web software for organizations whose work matters more than their tech budget — churches, nonprofits, restaurants, small businesses, and the people inside them trying to ship something real.
The current focus: TVMenus.com, a SaaS platform for restaurant digital menu boards; custom websites for small businesses; AI-assisted content tools (Sermon Catalog); and scheduling and operations software (Complete-360). Earlier projects include assessment platforms like ServeFinder and a spiritual-gifts test. Most of it runs on the same foundation — clean architecture, well-drawn service boundaries, and the kind of microservice design that keeps a product stable as it grows.
I work end-to-end — design, build, deploy, maintain — and I'm honest about what I'm good at and what I'm not. If your project isn't a fit, I'll say so and try to point you somewhere better.
The studio has been running since 2018. The fastest way to see if we'll work well together is to send a short note about what you're trying to build.
Stack
Tools I reach for first.
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Python
- MongoDB
- Azure
- AI / LLM systems
- Microservices
- Systems architecture
- Vite
- HTML
- CSS
- SEO