Joseph Cermak is a pragmatic programmer with 11 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining data-focused services for research and energy sectors from Fairbanks, Alaska. He combines an academic background in meteorology with deep systems and HPC experience—designing and operating data portals, middleware, and web services (THREDDS, MapServer, Hyrax) that make scientific datasets broadly accessible. At the Alaska Center for Energy and Power he applies that stack to renewable energy projects while running his own consulting firm for open-source provisioning and system administration. An active contributor to the popular php-crud-api project, he has improved core API behaviors, OpenAPI schema accuracy, and CSRF-safe testing. Beyond code, he brings long-term organizational stewardship—serving as treasurer for the local Taoist Tai Chi Society—highlighting a blend of technical rigor and community-oriented reliability.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Meteorology, Master of Science (M.S.), Meteorology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Single file PHP script that adds a REST API to a SQL database
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 18 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Joseph contributed to the core functionality of the PHP CRUD API by adding features and fixing bugs related to data exclusion, schema object definition, and database type handling. They implemented a new exclude functionality, allowing users to specify fields to omit from API responses. The user also improved the API's documentation by adding database field types to the OpenAPI schema. Finally, they fixed tests to address improved CSRF handling.
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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Joseph Cermak - Programmer at Lincoln Creek Consulting LLC