Joseph Harker

Professional Summary

Joseph Harker is a technical team leader who takes developing and lifting his team as seriously as developing solid architecture and well tested code. Some of his public work includes Lead Developer for denvergov.org and Dev and Team lead for the rewrite of order.chipotle.com. In the first quarter of its release, Chipotle online daily sales increased from 40k to 110k.

Joseph enjoys a good coding challenge and has written full stack enterprise code for Microcontrollers, Android and iOS applications, large scale web sites, and Virtual Reality. He has won First place in code competitions including the Denver Chipotle Hackathon and the National Microsoft Terrarium .Net competition.

Joseph is a US - Canada dual citizen, native English speaker who also speaks, reads and writes some Korean (한글), based in Denver, CO.

Skill Highlights

• Angular, Vue, Javascript
• Behavior Driven Architect
• c# .Net, Azure, SQL
• Full Stack Software Dev
• OWASP Security Certified
• Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master
• Team Foundation Server Admin
• Technical Team Lead

• Improved Big Data conversion speeds from 72+ hours to 6 hours for a global network of firms delivering securities, tax, and consulting services using Azure Data Factory and careful query optimization.
• Generated formatted server side Excel reports leveraging Blob Storage Bindings for Azure Functions.
• Maintained an average of 95% code coverage on Authorization, Notification and Security Projects

• Android and iOS share economy applications for fetch1 putting the power of the application in the hands of their users.
• Practice drills app for Android and iOS, helping people train for IDPA and IPSC competitions and Certificates.
• First place in two categories at the National Microsoft Terrarium .Net code competition.
• Off-site e-backup solution for Core Network Solutions Inc. that increased backup capabilities from 500M to 900G.
• Content Management site for World Wide Caregivers inc., saving each care worker an average of 3 hours per day.
• Automated hours tracking and billing system for Phoenix Heli-Flight Inc. allowing automatic hot sync of work data over WiFi.
• Automated Investment Software for a private investor that performs instant transactions as soon as a stock meets their criteria.
• Virtual Reality Environments using Unity. Creating a kitchen and bedroom in VR before starting work in real life.

• Team lead for redesign of order.chipotle.com that increased sales from 40k daily orders to over 110k.
• Improved unit test coverage on order platform from 40% to 87%.
• 8.8% sales increase in the first quarter our improvements went live.
• Employee hiring, firing, training and annual reviews for two scrum teams of 6 and 8.
• Back of house innovations including order print design and smarter pickup times that sped up service times by an average of 60%.
• Won the Chipotle hackathon by implementing a fully functional ordering app for iOS and Android in 3 days.