Joe Duncko

Experience

  1. BlastPoint

    Pittsburgh, PA (remote)
    Director of Platform Engineering
    - Present
    Grew from Senior Frontend Engineer to Director of Platform Engineering, leading the Platform Team's technical direction, product alignment, and process strategy. Re-architected a React codebase with modern tooling (TypeScript, Vite, react-query), enabling a two-person frontend team to consistently outpace larger backend and design teams. Introduced two-week cycles and a design-first planning process, doubling team throughput in a year and improving stakeholder trust and cross-functional clarity.
    Engineering Manager
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    Team Lead
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    Senior Frontend Engineer
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  2. BrdgAI

    Pittsburgh, PA (remote)
    Software Engineer
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    Built custom UIs and internal tools for machine learning workflows, including a web-based image/video labeling platform (React, Konva), a cross-platform data collection app (React Native, Expo), and supporting dashboards. Helped manage a team of international contractors. Contributed to DevOps workflows by implementing CI, analytics, and error reporting.

  3. The Event Discovery Company

    Youngstown, OH (remote)
    Co-Founder, CEO
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    Led communication with customers and stakeholders to make product and business decisions. Spearheaded frontend development, creating interactive wireframes in Adobe XD and implementing them in React (MUI). Worked remote with a team through an always-improving agile development workflow.

  4. Drund

    Youngstown, OH
    Talent Development Coordinator
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    Grew Drund's team and talent pool by coordinating internship programs and developer community outreach.
    Frontend Engineer
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    Maintained and added features to a white-label social-network-as-a-service. Helped modernize the project by leading the implementation of JavaScript code standards via linting, integration testing, unit testing, and refactoring.

  5. Flashstarts

    Cleveland, OH
    Software Development Intern
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    Spent a fast-paced summer helping multiple startups prep MVPs for Demo Day as part of Flashstarts' accelerator. Bounced between teams and projects - building with the MEAN stack on one, Phaser.js and TypeScript on another. Got my first real taste of startup chaos and collaboration.

  6. Youngstown State University

    Youngstown, OH
    Student Web Developer
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    Created an information organization system for the Youngstown State University's Undergraduate web Bulletin. This involved writing custom Drupal plugins and themes in PHP.

  7. Joe's PC Services

    Canfield, OH
    Joe
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    Branded, marketed, and carried out computer maintenance, phone repair, and website administration and creation services to over 100 unique customers while in high school.

Education

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems with a minor in Entrepreneurship at the Youngstown State University, Spring 2017

Extracurriculars

  1. Entrepreneur in Residence & Director of Software Development @
    Youngstown Business Incubator

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Advising YBI portfolio companies on software development strategy and leading the YBI's MVP Development Program - which funds and delivers a student-developed MVP for a Northeast Ohio-based startup each semester.

  2. Director of Software Development @
    Dev Youngstown

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Partnering Youngstown's most promising student software developers with its most promising startups.

  3. Adjunct Professor @
    Youngstown State University

    Youngstown, OH -

    Taught web development at the undergraduate level, bringing practical industry experience into the classroom.

  4. Co-Organizer @
    Code Youngstown

    Youngstown, OH - Present

    Organizing events and resources to connect software developers and engineers in the Youngstown, OH area.

  5. Co-Founder, Lead Organizer @
    HackYSU

    Youngstown, OH -

    Led the first three HackYSU hackathons, bringing together hundreds of students to build software projects over a weekend.

Select Projects

  • SWBF2.events

    , A calendar of current and upcoming community events in EA Star Wars Battlefront II (2017).

  • Digimon Tools

    , A collection of tools for the 2020 Digimon TCG.

Interests

  • Startups

    (Former founder, pitched to raise money, interned at a startup accelerator, participated in a startup accelerator and Y Combinator's Startup School.)

  • Hackathons

    (Co-founded
    HackYSU
    , traveled to Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, and more.)

  • Bitcoin

    (A blog post I wrote in 2011 was referenced in
    a legal journal
    and
    a book
    on the subject.)

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