Joey Ballentine
Software Engineer III at Sharpen
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Ballentine is a Software Engineer III with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and polished front-end experiences from Milwaukee. Currently the main backend developer for Sharpen’s Logic+ no-code automation and IVR flow builder, he works across Node.js/TypeScript, Redis, SQL/MongoDB, and AWS CDK while also contributing React front-end code. An active open-source contributor, Joey has shipped memory-reading game integrations and UI improvements for Aurora, built backend APIs and node factories for the chaiNNer image-processing project, and implemented custom edge rendering for React/Svelte Flow libraries. He brings a practical mix of legacy system maintenance and modern cloud-native engineering, plus a knack for bridging low-level integrations (memory reading, IVR tooling) with user-friendly interfaces. Joey holds a Computer Software Engineering degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and regularly improves code quality through linting, testing, and thoughtful API design.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at University of Nebraska-LincolnAssociate of Science, Mathematics, Associate of Science, Mathematics at College of the Canyons
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Github contributions (5)
chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
A node-based image processing GUI aimed at making chaining image processing tasks easy and customizable. Born as an AI upscaling application, chaiNNer has grown into an extremely flexible and powerful programmatic image processing application.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1877 reviews, 519 commits, 2638 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily worked on the back-end setup and development of the chainner-org/chainner repository, contributing significantly to the initial backend infrastructure. Their work focused on building the node factory, API, and core logic. They implemented features such as the /run endpoint and experimented with an ESRGAN implementation and its upscaling capabilities. The user demonstrated their capabilities with python and also focused on linting and code quality.
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antonpup/Aurora
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Unified lighting effects across multiple brands and various games.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 12 PRs, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily focused on enhancing the "Aurora" project's functionality by adding support for the game "Clone Hero." Their contributions involved implementing a new profile for Clone Hero, which included reading game state data from memory and creating a user interface for it. Further improvements included addressing memory reading errors, fixing bugs in the Clone Hero integration, adding new features and improving the existing user interface for easier modification of the games configuration.
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