Joe Cooper
DevOps Engineer at Savioke
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJoe Cooper is a seasoned DevOps engineer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience building and operating production systems from Austin, Texas. He founded Virtualmin and earlier Swell Technology, combining product-minded leadership with hands-on infrastructure work. Currently at Savioke, he focuses on reliable deployment and system automation while still contributing code—his open-source work includes UI and theme improvements to the widely used Webmin server management panel. Joe blends full-stack sensibilities with deep operational expertise, comfortably moving between CSS/UI fixes and backend/system tooling. His career shows a pattern of shipping practical, user-facing improvements and sustaining long-lived projects. Less obvious: he pairs founder-level strategic thinking with the meticulous detail orientation typical of long-term maintainers.
20 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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drupal
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Github Skills (15)
css10
user-interface10
perl10
webmin10
drupal9
html9
exp8
user-experience8
virtualmin6
rbenv6
php6
bundler6
rubygems6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
webmin/webmin
May 2007 - Jan 2021
Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 321 commits, 50 PRs in 13 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the Webmin/Webmin project by making improvements to the user interface and fixing bugs. Their work primarily involved the blue theme, where they restyled the login form to improve its appearance and added new CSS classes for better styling. They also fixed various issues, including broken paths and incorrect menu item lengths. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the ui-lib.pl and theme.pl files, indicating a focus on enhancing the user interface components and overall theme consistency within the Webmin control panel.
administrationweb-basedphpadministratorpanel
virtualmin/virtualmin-multi-login
Jun 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 7 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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