Joe Sweeney
Software Engineer at Headmaster LLP
Bozeman, Montana, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Sweeney is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building responsive web apps, PHP/Laravel backends, and JavaScript-driven front ends. Based in Bozeman, he pairs hands-on product work—migrating media to S3, shifting image processing to clients, and hardening deployments—with open-source contributions, including Windows-focused security and back-end improvements to the high-profile osquery project. He has a track record of improving developer workflows and deployment stability (Ansible, CI), shipping features across CMS and e-commerce contexts, and scaling systems through pragmatic architecture changes. Raised on a Montana ranch and trained in Music Technology, he brings a practical, user-focused perspective to engineering and product design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Technology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Technology at Montana State University-Bozeman
English
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Github Skills (16)
c-language10
ws-api10
winapi10
cprogramming-language10
wp-api10
security9
system-programming9
it-security9
network-intrusion-detection8
monitoring8
intrusion-detection8
sql8
testing7
ms-access6
ilist6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
osquery/osquery
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
SQL powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 10 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the osquery project, specifically improving Windows-specific implementations. Their work involved refactoring existing code, introducing new features such as porting the `memory_devices` table, and fixing bugs. They also addressed security concerns by implementing safer permission checks related to file access and Windows system users.
instrumentationanalyticsoperating-systemsecuritysql
josephsweeney/versionDB
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 months
versioneddatabase
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