// engineer → founder
Joe Williams
designs systems, orchestrates agents, gets sh*t done
Distributed-systems engineer, now co-founder of M2W.ai, an AI manga editor. Previously at Indeed. Writes mostly Go and Rust. Based in Tokyo.
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joe.williams
Joe Williams
Engineer & founder
| region | ap-northeast-1 |
|---|---|
| runtime | go · rust · ts |
| uptime | ~7.9y in JP |
| prev | indeed |
- ai/
AI & agents
Agents, LLM products, AI infra
- infra/
Distributed systems
Raft, Paxos, k8s, Terraform
- data/
Data & video
Pipelines, streaming, RTMP
README.mdview source ↗
Hello, my name is Joe Williams and welcome to my website! You can find the source code here under the MIT license.
About me
I am a Software Engineer currently living in Japan. I have been working in the software industry and living in Japan for around ~7.9 years. I quit my job (Indeed) to work on M2W.ai full-time from April 2026!
Please check out my projects page for more information.
Interests
Recent things interested/working on:
- My Open-source Distributed Container Runtime JobD similar to Cloud Run Jobs
- My Open-source API Gateways/LB - DGate (similar to Kong)
- Proactive agents - Convolt.ai
- My Agentic Home Lab - Harvester, 3 Linux machines and 2 Mac minis; run by AI, used for AI, to make more AI
- Data Engineering (Data Pipelines, Data Streaming, DataQueen)
- Dev-ops (Github Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform...)
- Ditributed Systems & Consensus (Raft, Paxos, etc.)
- Video Engineering (Video Streaming, autostream.live)
Hobbies
- Unfortunately, coding... Getting back into Robotics as well
- Entertainment: Love movies, anime and manga. Listening to loads of podcasts recently as well.
- Hanging out with family and friends, barbecuing, and going to the gym!
Event log
- INFOconvolt-ai: project started
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: PoC started
- OKjoe: left Indeed → M2W.ai full-time
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: project done
- INFOm2w-ai: project started
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: client project started
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: migration done
- INFOjobd: project started
- INFOdgate: project started
- INFOautostream-live: project started
- INFOdataqueen: project started
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: side project started
- DEBUGredacted for privacy: project done
- OKjoe: started in software, in Japan
- INFOjoe: joined GitHub
Title blockbubbajoe.dev
| Drawn by | J. Williams |
|---|---|
| Location | Tokyo · 35.68°N 139.69°E · --:-- JST |
| Off-hours | anime & manga · movies · podcasts · bbq · gym · robotics |
| Writing | /blog — first post in review |
| Contact | github/BubbaJoe · linkedin/bubbajoe |
| Status | Approved for build |