Joseph Istas
Staff Software Engineer I at Housecall Pro
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Istas is a Staff Software Engineer based in Portland with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web and Android applications, currently leading backend architecture and code quality at Housecall Pro. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, PHP/Symfony, and frontend work with React and Material UI, plus real-world payments integration using Stripe. His background spans embedded systems to cloud DevOps—having programmed 8-bit microcontrollers in C/Assembly, designed automotive embedded products at Garmin, and automated AWS provisioning with Ansible—giving him a rare systems-to-product view. A pragmatic mentor and quick learner, he consistently balances shipping features with maintaining long-term maintainability and has led migrations such as Rails upgrades and front-end modernizations to React.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9 at University of OregonB.S, Electrical Engineering, B.S, Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University
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Github Skills (7)
storm9
parser8
parse8
json6
vuejs26
transition5
vue3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joeistas/heroes-parser
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Parse Heroes of the Storm game data into JSON
Contributions:13 releases, 83 commits, 25 pushes in 1 year
game-dataheroes-of-the-stormheroesstormparser
joeistas/node-casclib
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:6 releases, 21 commits, 8 pushes in 3 months
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