Joseph Wolf
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Wolf is a software development engineer with 11 years of experience building multi-tier Java applications and shaping architecture across government and large enterprise environments. Currently at Amazon, he brings a strong background from the USPTO, CBP, and earlier work for regulatory agencies, where he led API design, system integrations, and platform migrations. He favors small, empowered agile teams, pragmatic engineering practices, and frequent production deployment to avoid overbearing process and brittle architectures. An active contributor to the prominent Apache Groovy project, he has improved JVM date/time APIs and addressed nuanced edge cases to make the language more robust. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, Joseph pairs hands-on coding with architecture and ops-aware thinking, and he enjoys influencing development culture through standards, tooling, and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
groovy10
java10
programming-language9
bigdecimal9
functional-programming8
json6
dynamic-typing6
maven6
eclipse6
constructor6
closures6
scripting6
compiler-compiler4
compiler4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/groovy
Dec 2014 - Mar 2018
Apache Groovy: A powerful multi-faceted programming language for the JVM platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on enhancing the Groovy language's date and time functionality. Their contributions include implementing and refining methods related to date/time formatting, as well as adding new methods for calculating time differences using Duration and Period objects. The user also addressed edge cases within existing methods and modified the Upto/Downto methods to allow custom TemporalUnits. These changes aim to improve the usability and robustness of Groovy's date/time handling capabilities.
static-typinggroovyfunctional-programmingapachemetaprogramming
bdkosher/goodtimes
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 82 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 1 month
apidate-timegroovyjava-8java
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