Software Engineer,Data Engineer

Joseph Sayad

Seven years building the data systems behind products.

Experience

7+ years of systems, from ingestion to ontology

Full-stack, data engineering and devops in every role.

2026
Awaken
Founding Engineer,Contract
A rules engine for DOL fiduciary guidance, the model behind it, and daily pipelines over regulatory, legislative and court sources.
2024 to 2025
Masterworks
Senior Data Engineer,Full-time
Modernized the data platform and cut costs, moved ingestion onto a queue, and built an LLM service that improved extraction accuracy.
2022 to 2024
Cofactr
Data Engineer,Full-time
Integrated supplier sources into a growing knowledge base of electronic parts, linked by an ontology, and helped build the ordering API in front of theirs.
2019 to 2022
Arthena
Software Engineer,Full-time
Worked on the data platform: scheduled ingestion of artwork transactions from various sources, the normalized features behind pricing, and a rebuild that improved its compute.

Projects

What I build

Independent work, built end to end.

LucidGov
2026
LucidGov
Web app,In progress
U.S. open data, searchable and summarized in plain English: Data.gov and Claude behind a Python API, Next.js in front.
Joseph Sayad
2026
josephsayad.com
Static site
This site: my experience and projects on one page, built with Next.js.