Joseph Hirn

Joseph Hirn has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and responsibilities. In their current position at ThreeFlow, they work as a Platform Operations Engineer, overseeing platform architecture and infrastructure. Joseph played a key role in migrating to container-based infrastructure, implementing system upgrades, and enhancing security measures. Joseph also redesigned the end-to-end test suite using Cypress.

Prior to this, Joseph served as a Senior Software Engineer at ThreeFlow, where they were part of the Broker UI team. Joseph contributed to the design and implementation of new features into the Core API using Ruby on Rails. Joseph facilitated the transition to Trunk Based merging and release strategy and introduced feature toggles for applications, integrating Launch Darkly. Joseph also updated Chef deployment scripts and upgraded the production environment for a complete update of the Rails application. Joseph introduced event capture through the Segment API and enabled users to reply to comments via email.

Joseph's work experience includes being the Co-Founder and VP of Technology at imnotArt, where they launched one of the first physical NFT galleries in the world. Joseph helped artists navigate the emerging world of non-fungible tokens and authored the website "mint".

At PatientIQ, Joseph worked as a Principal Architect, responsible for implementing the latest front-end tools like React and Apollo GraphQL on top of a Ruby backend. Joseph also played a crucial role in building and managing an exceptional team.

Joseph served as the VP of Technology at Kin Insurance, where they revolutionized the property insurance industry by overseeing the development of an in-house rating and policy administration system. Joseph also led the rewrite of the front-end sales funnel and established hiring practices and software development life cycle processes.

As the Founder of Delivery Focused LLC, Joseph took on various entrepreneurial responsibilities from October 2017 to October 2018.

Joseph also held the position of CTO/Practice Lead at DevMynd Software, where they managed product and personnel, recruited talent, and designed systems architecture. Before that, they were the Owner and Chief Consultant at Simple Software Solutions Corp, where they provided consulting services.

During their time at ThoughtWorks, Joseph served as a Senior Software Consultant, collaborating with a talented team on innovative projects. Joseph gained valuable experience working with diverse team sizes and advanced technologies.

Further back, at CME Group, Joseph worked as a Lead Software Engineer, specializing in market data and front-end systems. Joseph was involved in high-volume transaction processing, data storage, and build tool development.

At Ribstone Systems Inc, Joseph started their career as a Software Developer, contributing to kiosk-based Java Swing image scanning and printing projects. Joseph also worked with Gentoo Linux and C++.

Overall, Joseph Hirn has accumulated a wealth of experience in software development, platform operations, architectural design, team management, and entrepreneurship across various industries.

Joseph Hirn earned a Masters degree in Computer Science from DePaul University between the years 2004 and 2006.