Joe Nelson
Co-Owner at Bring Me The News
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJoe Nelson is a Minneapolis-based media entrepreneur and technologist with 14 years of experience reinventing local news and sports coverage as co-owner of Bring Me The News. He blends editorial leadership and hands-on production—drawing on a background in radio play-by-play and broadcast management—to deliver conversational, curated news for Minnesota audiences. Equally comfortable in code, Joe contributes to open-source projects in Haskell and Postgres ecosystems, improving PostgREST backend features and tooling as well as automating Haskell/Vim installs and CI. That mix of newsroom instincts and backend engineering gives him a rare ability to turn real-time content needs into reliable, scalable systems.
14 years of coding experience
Speech Communication: Radio & Television, Speech Communication: Radio & Television at Southwest Minnesota State University
Stackoverflow
549reputation
39kreached
12answers
7questions
Github Skills (31)
json10
api-rest10
restructuredtext10
postgresql10
api-design10
restful-api10
stack10
rs10
bash10
stacker10
cicd10
sql10
rest-api10
haskell10
documentation10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
begriffs/haskell-vim-now
Dec 2013 - Jul 2018
One-line Haskell Vim install
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:219 commits, 94 PRs, 158 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on the automation and enhancement of the installation process for a Haskell-Vim setup. They implemented and improved the `install.sh` script by adding and refining package dependencies, ensuring the installation of required tools like `ghc-mod`, `hasktags`, and `codex`. Furthermore, the user introduced CI/CD features, including stackage sandbox, version checks, and optimizations to build processes.
haskellghcvimservant
PostgREST/postgrest
Jun 2014 - Aug 2019
REST API for any Postgres database
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 817 commits, 409 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe contributed to the backend of the PostgREST project, which is a REST API for PostgreSQL databases. They focused on implementing and refining features related to stored procedures, API functionality, and data validation. Their work included adding new functionality for handling JSON and CSV data as well as addressing issues related to authentication and request handling. These changes involved modifications to the core codebase in Haskell and updates to the database schema, demonstrating their work in the backend domain.
apipostgres-databasepostgresql-databasehaskellsql
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.