Joe Duncko
Experience
- Pittsburgh, PA (remote)Director of Platform Engineering- PresentGrew 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-Team Lead-Senior Frontend Engineer-
- Pittsburgh, PA (remote)Software Engineer-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.
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The Event Discovery Company
Youngstown, OH (remote)Co-Founder, CEO-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. - Youngstown, OHTalent Development Coordinator-Grew Drund's team and talent pool by coordinating internship programs and developer community outreach.Frontend Engineer-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.
- Cleveland, OHSoftware Development Intern-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.
- Youngstown, OHStudent Web Developer-Created an information organization system for the Youngstown State University's Undergraduate web Bulletin. This involved writing custom Drupal plugins and themes in PHP.
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Joe's PC Services
Canfield, OHJoe-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
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Entrepreneur in Residence & Director of Software Development @
Youngstown Business IncubatorYoungstown, OH - PresentAdvising 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.
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Director of Software Development @
Dev YoungstownYoungstown, OH - PresentPartnering Youngstown's most promising student software developers with its most promising startups.
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Adjunct Professor @
Youngstown State UniversityYoungstown, OH -Taught web development at the undergraduate level, bringing practical industry experience into the classroom.
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Co-Organizer @
Code YoungstownYoungstown, OH - PresentOrganizing events and resources to connect software developers and engineers in the Youngstown, OH area.
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Co-Founder, Lead Organizer @
HackYSUYoungstown, OH -Led the first three HackYSU hackathons, bringing together hundreds of students to build software projects over a weekend.
Select Projects
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SWBF2.events
https://swbf2.events/ -
Digimon Tools
https://digimon.tools/
Interests
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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-foundedHackYSU, traveled to Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, and more.) -
Bitcoin
(A blog post I wrote in 2011 was referenced ina legal journalanda bookon the subject.)