Joe Barnes
Senior Software Engineer at Tango Tango
Athens, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Barnes is a senior software engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building scalable, pragmatic web and backend systems across cloud and on-prem environments. He specializes in the Java and Scala ecosystems, with deep hands-on work in streaming (Kafka/Kafka Streams), distributed services, and infrastructure automation (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes). Joe has led reliability and cost-reduction efforts for large multi-region platforms, coached teams through Scala and functional programming workshops, and modernized legacy products via significant refactors and automation. An active open-source contributor, he has made meaningful backend improvements to well-known projects like the Lift framework and the giter8 templating tool, reflecting expertise in web framework internals and developer tooling. Based in Athens, Alabama, he balances pragmatism and simplicity with advocacy for CI/CD, immutable infrastructure, and test-driven development.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (20)
scala10
lift10
command-line-tool10
playframework10
app-framework9
sbt-plugin9
web-framework9
webpages8
javascript7
json-serialization7
html7
ant6
scalacheck6
jmock6
scalatest6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lift/framework
Dec 2014 - Mar 2018
Lift Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:243 commits, 27 PRs, 110 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the Lift Framework by implementing and refactoring code related to content parsing and template handling. Their commits include adding and modifying content parsers, changing how content is parsed within the framework, and updating related template suffixes. They also updated json serialization and created a new comet rehydration functionality, demonstrating expertise in web framework internals and associated features.
frameworkscalaliftjavareal-time
foundweekends/giter8
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
a command line tool to apply templates defined on GitHub
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on improving the functionality of `giter8`, a command-line tool for applying templates. Their contributions included fixing Windows console behavior by flushing the console output, updating how default properties are processed, and introducing property resolution for interactive and console arguments. These changes involved modifications to core Scala code and the integration of a `LinkedListProperties` class, improving the tool's usability and functionality.
giter8command-line-tooltemplatedefinedsbt-plugin
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