Joseph Glass
Senior Software Engineer at Simple Thread
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Glass is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications, currently contributing at Simple Thread after a multi-year tenure developing software for the University of Virginia. He brings strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative mindset to projects that blend Ruby- and PHP-based object-oriented back ends with JavaScript front ends, relational databases, ElasticSearch and graph databases. Fascinated by the intersection of cognitive science and technology, he designs learning-focused applications that leverage psychology and UI principles to improve memory and education outcomes. Trained at Turing School in Back-End Engineering and grounded in a BA in Psychology and Spanish Linguistics, he pairs technical rigor with user-centered insight and bilingual experience. Colleagues value him for tackling challenging problems with curiosity and for translating research-informed ideas into practical, production-ready features.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Back-End Engineering, Back-End Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology & Spanish Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology & Spanish Linguistics at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (23)
reconciliation9
java9
data-wrangling9
wikidata9
rest-api9
data-analysis8
inventory-management-system8
rails8
data-science8
openrefine8
journalism7
ruby-on-rails6
open-source6
ruby6
aasm6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snac-cooperative/snac-openrefine-extension
Mar 2021 - Jul 2022
OpenRefine extension for connecting with SNAC
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
openrefinesnac-openrefinesnac-extension
snac-cooperative/snac-laravel
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
SNAC Laravel framework
Contributions:16 releases, 4 reviews, 43 PRs in 2 years 2 months
laravel-framework
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