Joe Kepley
Director Of Production at Blend Interactive
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
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SeniorJoe Kepley is a seasoned web developer and Director of Production at Blend Interactive with 15 years of professional experience, primarily serving the financial sector. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, Rails, and server administration with a user-first approach to craft sites that are both beautiful and purpose-built to support business goals. At Blend he aligns Strategic Design, Development, and Project Management to continuously improve processes and deliver measurable client outcomes. An experienced open-source contributor, he has improved legacy handling and template integration in the eZ Publish kernel, demonstrating attention to maintainability and edge-case XML/embed handling. Based in Sioux Falls, he pairs technical depth with client-facing analysis and content management experience to turn complex requirements into usable, production-ready solutions.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (7)
php10
back-end-development10
ezplatform10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
twig9
xml8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ezsystems/ezpublish-kernel
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Kernel (Repository, MVC layer, REST) for eZ Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the `ezpublish-kernel` repository by modifying the `LegacyKernelController.php` file to integrate Twig templates for overriding legacy requests and added configuration options related to legacy mode. Their work also involved code style edits and adjustments to handle XML text conversions, specifically addressing issues in the handling of embed tags within the XML text. The user further updated the codebase to correctly pass template variables for embeds, and define alignment parameters.
ezplatformkernelmvcrest
blendinteractive/Blend.Umbraco.AltTextAi
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Umbraco package to add automated alt text generation to uploaded media files.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
text-generationumbraco
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