Joe Conti

Current

• Senior Software Services Engineer at The MathWorks

Past

• Senior Software Engineer Data Tools at The MathWorks
• Software Engineer, Graphics and Plotting Team at The MathWorks

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Maryland College Park
• Florida Institute of Technology

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Connections

24 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• CheckThread.org

Joe Conti’s Summary

Joe Conti’s Specialties:

Java, Servlets, Android, Struts, MySQL, XML, JavaScript, AJAX, JSON, Software Services, C, C++, Swing, JIDE, & MATLAB

Joe Conti’s Experience

• Senior Software Services Engineer

  The MathWorks

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — Present (2 years 3 months)

  * Lead an exploratory software services project
  * Conceived and prototyped software services using Servlets, Tomcat, Jetty, and RMI
  * Designed and implemented an expandable software services stack that can be collapsed into one process for local host development or expanded for a production environment

• Senior Software Engineer Data Tools

  The MathWorks

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — February 2006 (3 years 2 months)

  *Converted a legacy AWT application into a responsive and modern Swing application.
  * Developed an event viewer tool for visualizing and debugging event listeners within an object hierarchy.
  * Devised a monitoring tool for visualizing Java class loading, Java heap memory, application memory allocation, and other diagnostics to facilitate debugging.
  * Created unit tests in order to ensure high quality and reduce regressions.
  * Reduced bug count in product areas by 80%.

• Software Engineer, Graphics and Plotting Team

  The MathWorks

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — January 2003 (3 years 1 month)

  * Created Java class loading infrastructure to support dynamic reloading of Java classes.
  * Developed and designed exploration features that allow users to explore data from plots (e.g. clicking on a 3-D surface will display a cursor displaying x,y,z information).
  * Added a property linking feature that allows object state to remain synchronized.
  * Developed and designed a code generation feature that generates code from a plotting hierarchy.

Joe Conti’s Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  MS, Mechanical Engineering, 1996 — 1998

• University of Maryland College Park

  BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1994 — 1996

• Florida Institute of Technology

  N/A, Flight School, 1991 — 1993

  Activities and Societies:

  Private Pilot
  Commercial Pilot
  Instrument Rating
  Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity

Additional Information

Joe Conti’s Websites:

• CheckThread.org

Joe Conti’s Groups:

Founder and lead developer:
http://checkthread.org

Leader for the Boston/Cambridge Android Meetup Group:
http://softwaredev.meetup.com/89/

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