Joe Fleming is a seasoned full-stack web developer with 14 years of experience, based in the Phoenix area, who specializes in building robust RESTful APIs using Node.js, PHP, MongoDB, MySQL, and JavaScript on Linux/Unix platforms. He has a practical engineering foundation from Milwaukee School of Engineering and a track record of improving reliability in open-source projects—most notably hardening error handling in node-horseman and adding a compression plugin to the widely used store.js. Comfortable across front-end and back-end concerns, he focuses on pragmatic, test-backed improvements that reduce runtime failures and optimize storage. Currently transitioning toward mobile development, he brings an API-first mindset that helps bridge server-side systems with client platforms. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who prefers incremental, well-tested changes that make libraries and services more dependable in production.
14 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Technologies, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering Technologies at Milwaukee School of Engineering
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe focused on enhancing error handling and improving the robustness of the `node-horseman` library. They implemented specific error rejection mechanisms when encountering failure statuses during page loading. Their contributions included modifying core `lib/actions.js` logic, updating tests in `test/index.js` to ensure proper error handling, and refining error messages for better debugging. These changes improved the reliability and stability of the library.
Cross-browser storage for all use cases, used across the web.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on enhancing the `store.js` library, a cross-browser storage solution. Their contributions included implementing a compression plugin using LZ-string for data storage optimization. They also refactored the plugin to leverage get/set methods and added tests. Furthermore, they improved the overall structure of the plugin.
cross-browsercasesuse-casesbrowserjavascript
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