Joe Ridenour
Director Of Technology, Full Stack at Mercury Intermedia
Spring Hill, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Ridenour is a Director of Technology and full-stack engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience originating as a self-taught iOS developer and growing into leadership at Mercury Intermedia. He bridges software and hardware work—designing and assembling high-performance systems and shipping robust full-stack solutions—while staying active in open-source iOS tooling (notably enhancing image handling and styling in the Classy library). Comfortable in client-facing roles, Joe pairs clear communication with technical depth to translate product needs into practical architectures and deliverables. His career blends long-term commitment to a single company with continual tinkering in embedded systems and electronics, revealing a rare mix of institutional knowledge and maker curiosity. Based in Spring Hill, TN, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to fast-paced projects and cross-disciplinary teams.
12 years of coding experience
unfinished Computer Science, unfinished Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (12)
styles10
objective-c10
swift10
userstyle10
uikit10
imager10
image-management10
ios10
imagehandler10
imageio10
image10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ClassyKit/Classy
Nov 2013 - Jan 2015
Expressive, flexible, and powerful stylesheets for UIView and friends.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Joe focused on enhancing the `classykit/classy` library, which provides styling capabilities for UIKit components. Their primary contributions involved expanding the library's image handling capabilities. They added support for loading images from file paths and implemented URI schemes to access images from the caches, documents, and bundle directories. They also fixed styling issues related to UIBarButtonItems and implemented fixes for float/double primitive types, and iOS 8 layout margins.
stylesheetstylesheetsexpressiveuiviewswift
urbn/URBNSwipeableController
Apr 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:1 release, 11 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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