Joe Beernink
Principal Software Engineer at Willow
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Beernink is a principal software engineer and technology leader with over 25 years of experience spanning Microsoft Azure, digital twins, and smart city initiatives. Currently at Willow, he leads the CloudOps team, delivering a new SaaS tenancy model, slashing Azure costs by more than 50%, and shortening customer onboarding from weeks to hours while automating topology migration between graph ontologies. He previously contributed to Microsoft Azure Digital Twins and Smart Places/Smart Energy, shaping scalable cloud-native solutions across large enterprises. As founder and board member of TrashMob.eco, he applies engineering discipline to social impact platforms that mobilize community litter cleanup. He excels at leading cross-functional teams through rapid delivery cycles, architecture alignment, and disaster recovery planning. Based in Issaquah, Washington, he pairs hands-on development with strategic product and partner enablement to drive measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at York University
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Github Skills (149)
litter10
azure-maps-control10
semantic-web10
azure-functions10
swagger10
rest-api10
owl10
openapi10
msbuild-task10
ontologies10
azure-maps10
azure-sdk10
dotnet10
estate10
semantics10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TrashMob-eco/TrashMob
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Source Code for TrashMob.eco
Contributions:2 releases, 210 reviews, 1863 commits in 1 year 10 months
litterecoenvironmentsustainabilitypollution
Azure/opendigitaltwins-tools
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Tools for Open Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL) RealEstateCore Ontology
Contributions:110 reviews, 112 commits, 194 PRs in 5 months
owlsemanticsdigital-twinssemantic-webdtdl
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