Joe Simon
Software Engineer at Dow Jones
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoe Simon is a software engineer with a decade of experience building reliable web and media systems, currently contributing to Dow Jones' audio and video platform. He brings strong full-stack skills in JavaScript (React, TypeScript, Node.js), Go, and distributed systems, with a practical focus on concurrency, performance, and maintainable architecture. His background includes designing APIs and refactoring legacy services to improve reliability and observability, and he has hands-on experience adding metrics and tooling to surface bottlenecks. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs a craft-minded approach to clean, testable code with a curious, continual-learning ethos—often exploring functional programming, containers, and scalability in side projects and open source.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Github Skills (31)
nodejs7
react7
realtek7
graphql6
honeywell6
adapter6
typescript6
mkv6
javascript6
journalism5
mp45
homebridge4
homekit4
mpv4
sketchup4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
simonjm/hawkeye
Apr 2016 - Aug 2020
A simple program that watches a directory for .mkv files and converts them to .mp4 with ffmpeg
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
mpvmkvmp4watchesdirectory
simonjm/adventofcode
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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