Joseph North
Software Engineer at IBM
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph North is a full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in defense and intelligence systems, particularly geospatial intelligence and C4ISR. He has strong Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript skills and a track record of shipping production features across open-source projects like Codice DDF and Alliance. At IBM/Connexta he built components such as a KLV metadata extractor, a replay engine for sensor streams, and a metacard validation framework, demonstrating both systems and domain expertise. His open-source front-end contributions improved geospatial search UX and filtering in the DDF ecosystem, reflecting an attention to usability in complex data platforms. Earlier roles at Google and in research exposed him to large-scale stream processing and language-to-knowledge tools, rounding out his backend and data-processing capabilities. Based in Glendale, AZ, he combines defense-industry rigor with a pragmatic UI mindset that helps bridge sensors, data pipelines, and usable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Arizona State University
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
javascript10
user-interface10
handlebars10
stream6
ajax6
xml6
metadata6
stanag6
android6
jquery6
geolocation6
java6
react5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
codice/ddf
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
DDF Distributed Data Framework - an open source, modular integration framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:90 reviews, 146 commits, 174 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on improving the user interface for the DDF project. Their contributions included fixing a source list dropdown issue, updating the UI for searching, enhancing the appearance of geospatial search results, and improving the overall user experience related to filtering search results. The user also refactored existing UI components and updated the search UI to accommodate changes in a file upload feature.
codicecssosgisaml2framework
connexta/ddf-jsonrpc
Sep 2020 - Mar 2024
JSON RPC For DDF
Contributions:11 reviews, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 6 months
rpcjsonddfjson-rpc
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