Joseph Hirn
VP Of Software Engineering at Dojo and Co
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Hirn is a seasoned software leader and engineering coach with 15 years of professional experience and a career that began in a high school computer lab in 1994. Currently VP of Software Engineering at Rent Butter and running Pragmatic Idealist LLC while coaching at Dojo and Co, he combines hands-on architecture and platform work with team-level transformational coaching. He has led major rewrites and platform migrations across industries—insurance, healthcare, finance and web3—building rating and policy systems, GraphQL/React frontends, and containerized infrastructures. Known for pragmatic process improvement, he introduced trunk-based development, feature toggles, and robust test suites at multiple organizations. A polyglot developer who jokes that he “speaks every programming dialect, but always with a slight Lisp,” he pairs deep technical curiosity with a commitment to mentoring and sustainable delivery. Based in Chicago, he blends startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering discipline to help teams ship resilient, user-focused products.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at DePaul University
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
visual-studio10
linter10
url-resolve10
html10
rails-app10
static-code-analysis10
css10
tooltip10
ruby10
activerecord10
editor10
daisyui10
analyzer10
sass-loader10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
jhirn/emacs-prelude
Feb 2013 - Aug 2020
Contributions:155 commits, 26 pushes in 7 years 7 months
emacspreludeemacs-configurationemacs-lisp
jhirn/dotfiles
Dec 2010 - Aug 2022
Contributions:133 commits, 46 pushes, 2 branches in 11 years 10 months
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