Joseph Bongaarts
Principal Software Engineer at SPS Commerce
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Bongaarts is a Principal Software Engineer with 26 years of experience delivering full‑stack, value‑driven software and guiding teams from legacy modernization to production-ready architectures. Currently at SPS Commerce, he blends hands‑on development, system and network troubleshooting experience, and pragmatic architecture to ensure customer and business impact. He has led major UI, rendering, and API redesigns, migrated 15‑year codebases to modern architectures, and introduced CI/CD and DevOps practices across organizations. Comfortable as both sole developer and leader of small and large teams, he consistently ships premium products while improving processes and lowering operational costs. A former avionics technician in the Air Force, he brings disciplined systems thinking and deep operational knowledge that informs reliable, maintainable software delivery. Based in Prior Lake, MN, he prioritizes measurable value and long‑term sustainability over short‑term technical novelty.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Minneapolis CollegeCommunity College of the Air Force
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Github Skills (11)
windows6
wix6
windows-service6
continuous-integration6
visual-studio6
api4
webapi3
csharp3
openapi2
swagger2
swagger-ui2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
ircplanet/undernet-ircu
Apr 2000 - Apr 2002
Contributions:82 commits in 2 years
domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle.WebApi
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Seamlessly adds a swagger to WebApi projects!
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
apiwebapicsharpopenapi3swagger-ui
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