Joe Meilinger
Founder Managing Partner Software Engineer at aqua IT
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Meilinger is a founder and hands-on software engineer with 12 years of professional experience who launched aqua IT to "do things the right way," operating from the St. Louis and Washington DC areas. He has progressed through technical leadership roles—from web developer and core architect to principal and lead engineer—bringing deep experience in architecting and delivering enterprise-grade solutions. At aqua IT he combines strategic business leadership with day-to-day engineering, translating client needs into maintainable, secure systems. His background includes defense and government contracting experience alongside commercial projects, giving him a practical appreciation for auditable, compliant software delivery. A Missouri S&T computer science graduate, he’s known for blending entrepreneurial drive with a steady focus on engineering discipline and long-term maintainability.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (96)
django10
tile-server10
vector-tiles10
wkb10
vector10
openlayers10
mapbox-vector-tile10
geospatial10
gis10
mvt10
ansible9
postgis9
golang9
julia9
science9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FireCARES/firecares-ansible
Aug 2015 - Nov 2019
The Devops Repo for FireCARES
Contributions:5 PRs, 103 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 3 months
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meilinger/firecares
Aug 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:83 pushes, 68 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 2 months
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