Joe Hegarty
Senior Software Engineer at ElectronicArts
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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RockstarJoe Hegarty is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edmonton with 11 years of experience specializing in distributed systems. At EA he focuses on backend challenges, designing reliable node management and gRPC runtimes that power scalable services. He’s an active open-source contributor to the prominent Orbit virtual actor framework, where he implemented core application entry points, gRPC code generation, and foundational logging and client setup. Known for tackling low-level infrastructure and runtime concerns, Joe blends pragmatic engineering with a systems-first mindset to make complex distributed logic easier to operate and extend.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
logging10
back-end-development10
grpc10
concurrency9
distributed-systems9
microservices8
microservices-application8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
orbit/orbit
Nov 2016 - Jun 2020
Orbit - Virtual actor framework for building distributed systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:104 releases, 1 review, 311 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the core functionality of the Orbit project, focusing on back-end development. Their work involved creating the application entry point and implementing gRPC code generation. Furthermore, the user worked on the basic gRPC runtime server and designed the system for node management and the initial setup of the client. Their commits demonstrate work on foundational aspects, including logging and core system setup.
orbitdistributed-systemsactoractor-frameworkvirtual-actor
orbit/orbit-jetty
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Preconfigured Jetty application for developing web services with the Orbit framework.
Contributions:7 releases, 5 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 4 months
developingorbitpreconfiguredweb-servicesorbitdb
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