Joe Lapp
Software Engineer at Freelance
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Hultgren is a Technical Artist based in California with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience bridging real-time rendering, pipeline tooling, and character rigging. He has driven pipeline and asset-tracking systems at Visual Concepts and Crystal Dynamics, managing render farms (Deadline, Celery) and integrating ShotGrid and USD workflows to keep large production pipelines running smoothly. Equally comfortable in code, Joe contributes to open-source projects—improving TypeScript typings for the popular Objection.js ORM—and brings senior full‑stack skills in TypeScript/Node and performant Java to tooling development. His background in character rigging and an MFA in Character Rigging give him a practical artist’s eye for automation and ergonomics, while ongoing learning in Rust and domain-driven design signals a push toward more robust, maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex animation and asset needs into reliable, developer-friendly pipeline solutions.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Major, Mathematics Major at University of MarylandBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
static-typing10
typescripts10
orm10
typescript-types10
validators10
api-design9
nodejs8
databases8
database8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Vincit/objection.js
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
An SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 162 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe's contributions primarily involve improvements to the TypeScript typings for the Objection.js ORM, focusing on validator integrations. They modified and expanded the typing definitions to include validator context, arguments, and configurations. Their work also includes corrections and enhancements related to relation types and query builder methods, ensuring better type safety and developer experience. The commits demonstrate a focus on refining the API's type definitions and resolving potential issues in the project.
nodejsormsql
jtlapp/jvm-vs-jsr
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:250 pushes, 12 branches in 7 months
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