Joe Watkins

Joe Watkins is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Storyboarder, an emerging technology startup focused on web-native fiction and digital storytelling platforms. Prior to his current entrepreneurial venture, he served in a technical leadership capacity at Google, where he directed a specialized engineering team focused on computer vision and machine learning applications. Watkins also gained significant autonomous vehicle industry experience during his tenure at Waymo, contributing to the development of advanced systems that utilized machine learning algorithms for generating high-definition maps. His extensive engineering background in artificial intelligence directly informs the technical architecture of his current company, which he established to build internet-native tools for digital creators. Today, his professional career bridges complex machine learning infrastructure with innovative consumer applications, reflecting a sustained focus on advancing the technical capabilities of modern digital storytelling.