Joey Rees-hill
Senior Software Engineer at Toro TMS
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoey Rees-hill is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building backend systems and shipping product-focused features. An Oberlin College graduate with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics, Joey has advanced through roles at AppFolio into senior engineering at Toro TMS, contributing to data model restructures, Kubernetes tooling, and React front-ends alongside Ruby on Rails backends. He is an active open-source contributor to notable Python projects like PRAW, where he implemented streaming capabilities and improved URL parsing and documentation—work that facilitates real-time interaction with Reddit data. Known for pragmatic refactors and reliable feature delivery, Joey brings a mix of academic rigor and hands-on production experience, plus early leadership and teaching experience from theater and TA roles that inform his collaborative, mentor-minded approach.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science & Mathematics at Oberlin College
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Github Skills (16)
r-api10
api10
reddit10
stackexchange-api10
python10
apidoc10
streaming10
websocket9
testing8
documentation7
stream6
praw6
quart6
webdav6
python-asyncio6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
praw-dev/praw
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 226 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joey primarily contributed to the `praw-dev/praw` repository by implementing features related to streaming capabilities for Redditor and Multireddit objects. They added new methods and classes for streaming comments and submissions, as well as for blocking users. Furthermore, they fixed bugs, updated documentation, and refactored code related to URL parsing for submissions. These additions expanded the API wrapper's functionality, making it easier to stream and interact with Reddit data.
apipythonprawreddit-apiapi-wrapper
jarhill0/YouTube2Reddit
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
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