Joe Ipson
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Pluto TV
Vernal, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Ipson is a Senior Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack web and cloud-native applications, currently leading engineering at Pluto TV. He brings deep front-end expertise across frameworks (Vue, React, Aurelia, AngularJS) and strong back-end and serverless skills in Node, Python, C#, and AWS Lambda. Joe has modernized legacy codebases—migrating JQuery/Knockout apps to Aurelia and upgrading JavaScript stacks to TypeScript/Webpack—while also shipping mobile apps with React Native and reusable UI libraries. He contributes to open-source (notably enhancing an Alexa skill for Kodi with Lambda integration and playback controls), and pairs hands-on coding with deployment and automation know-how across CI/CD, Jenkins, Heroku and Envoyer. Based in Vernal, Utah, he combines enterprise-scale experience from Verizon Media and Pluto TV with practical IT and scripting roots from district-level systems administration, making him equally comfortable mentoring teams or diving into low-level tooling.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Web Development, Certificate Web Development at V SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
python10
aws-lambda10
alexa-skills-kit10
kodi10
flask-ask10
flask10
apim9
api9
yaml8
alembic6
sqlalchemy6
flask-sqlalchemy6
bash6
stencil6
github6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
m0ngr31/kanzi
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
Alexa skill for controlling Kodi
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 54 commits, 48 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and integration of the Alexa skill for Kodi. They implemented preflight checks, added intents, and integrated with Kodi's API to enable control of playback, including pause, resume, stop, and seeking functionalities. Furthermore, they updated the skill to support direct lambda support and modified the language settings and skill ID configurations.
alexa-skills-kitexploreamazon-echoaws-lambdaamazon
m0ngr31/koko
Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
Alexa skill for streaming music from Kodi
Contributions:10 releases, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 9 months
streamingmusic-streamingalexaalexa-skillmusic
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