Open to remote AI-native software engineering roles

I build and evaluate AI-powered softwarewith production judgment behind every result.

I’m Joseph Meeko, a senior AI-native software engineer combining 5+ years of production SaaS ownership with paid AI evaluation, developer tooling, and carefully reviewed agentic development. I turn ambiguous needs and difficult failures into reliable systems.

Joseph Meeko
01Senior AI-Native Software Engineer
PRODUCTION FOUNDATION
PHPMySQLJavaScriptPythonAWSOpenSearchRedisDockerTerraformREST APIsCI/CD
5+years shipping production software
50K+users served by Envision EHR
8,381malformed analytics records traced to root cause
Paid AI QArubric-based evaluation and reviewer work

My strongest edge is evidence-first engineering: read the real data flow, evaluate the output against explicit requirements, find the root cause, test it hard, and stay accountable after it ships.

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AI quality work grounded in production ownership.

Paid AI evaluation and reviewer work now extends a five-year record of owning the software customers depend on.

2026
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Micro1 · Remote contract

AI Training, Evaluation & Quality Engineering Contractor

Jul 2026 – Present

Perform paid AI-output evaluation and quality engineering for software-focused assignments, combining explicit rubrics, reproducible evidence, and accountable human review.

  • Advanced from evaluator to reviewer while applying defined rubrics, auditing evidence, and delivering concise technical feedback.
  • Evaluate coding and software-engineering responses, write scoring rationales, and compare candidate outputs without exposing client material.
  • Inspect simulated SaaS products for reproducible defects and feature opportunities, then structure the findings as evidence-backed rubric packs.
  • Review JSON-based artifacts and guarded agent workflows for trace fidelity, privacy, reconstructability, and final human approval.
2025
2026

Ellipsend · Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Mar 2025 – Jul 2026

Primary builder across a social CRM and marketing-automation platform, spanning customer-facing product work, integrations, analytics, data integrity, and cloud services.

  • Owned major areas including inbox and CRM, automation flows, social analytics, onboarding, billing, and settings.
  • Operated a Terraform-managed Python Lambda pipeline and a Dockerized Flask service on ECS Fargate.
  • Shipped integrations across Meta, TikTok, Stripe, Rewardful, Calendly, REST APIs, and webhooks.
  • Diagnosed cross-layer failures across PHP, MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch, JavaScript, and AWS.
2021
2025

Southern Oregon Practice Management · Central Point, Oregon

Full-Stack Developer → Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Mar 2025

Advanced from developer to manager while owning Envision EHR, a multi-tenant PHP and MySQL platform serving more than 50,000 end users.

  • Built the platform’s first electronic-claim submission system, enabling direct payer reimbursement for customer practices.
  • Led production features across billing, clinical workflows, forms, integrations, and infrastructure.
  • Hired and mentored the first engineering intern from new graduate to full-time contributor.
  • Established code-review and deployment standards on a previously single-developer codebase.

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Six examples of how I evaluate and solve real problems.

The common thread is full ownership: understand the system, protect the user, and improve the path that follows.

AI evaluation

Turned AI output into evidence-backed quality decisions

Performed paid AI-output evaluation and reviewer work using explicit rubrics, evidence checks, structured JSON artifacts, and concise technical feedback while protecting client confidentiality.

rubric designevidence reviewquality assuranceJSON validation
Developer tooling

Built a regression harness for coding-agent output

Built a confidentiality-safe Python harness that runs deterministic tasks, captures command trajectories, applies weighted rubrics, names failure modes, and can fail CI on regressions.

Pythonagent evaluationregression testingCI
Data integrity

Protected analytics from corrupt source data

Traced inflated engagement calculations to malformed OpenSearch documents, then added a focused likes-to-reach integrity guard across four analytics modules instead of forcing a risky upstream rewrite.

OpenSearchMySQLanalyticsroot-cause debugging
Cloud data systems

Reworked paid-media ingestion to fit the production window

Replaced a highly paginated TikTok Ads path with day-level report aggregation so all-organization processing completed within a 15-minute Lambda window.

Python 3.12AWS LambdaTerraformthird-party APIs
Product engineering

Built a visual automation system from scratch

Delivered trigger selection, keyword conflict detection, eleven reorderable action types, an accurate phone preview, and validation that reports completion only when a flow is truly valid.

PHPJavaScriptjQueryBootstrapproduct UI
Platform delivery

Removed brittle deployment access failures

Migrated Bitbucket deployments to AWS CodeDeploy with OIDC federation, eliminating dynamic-IP allow-list failures while keeping deployment permissions scoped and repeatable.

AWS CodeDeployOIDCBitbucket PipelinesCI/CD

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AI increases my speed. Evaluation keeps the result honest.

I use Claude Code and Codex for repository analysis, debugging, implementation, test design, and agentic workflows. My paid evaluation work applies the same discipline to AI output: explicit criteria, reproducible evidence, clear failure modes, and human approval.

My developer tooling includes a Python agent orchestrator and a confidentiality-safe coding-agent evaluation harness with weighted rubrics, trajectory capture, regression reports, and a CI failure mode.
  1. 01

    Frame the system

    Read the architecture, constraints, data flow, and failure boundary before changing code.

  2. 02

    Direct the tools

    Use Claude Code and Codex to investigate, draft, compare approaches, and accelerate repetitive work.

  3. 03

    Evaluate the evidence

    Check output against explicit requirements, tests, rubrics, trajectories, and the behavior of the surrounding system.

  4. 04

    Approve the result

    Test deeply, name failure modes, document the decision, and remain responsible for what ships.

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AI-native range built on the whole production stack.

Paid evaluation and agent tooling now sit on top of deep PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Python, AWS, OpenSearch, product, and leadership experience.

AI evaluation and tooling

  • Rubric-based output review
  • Evidence and JSON validation
  • Agent trajectory regression
  • Human-approved delivery

Product engineering

  • Workflow builders
  • Reporting dashboards
  • Onboarding and billing
  • Responsive UI debugging

Backend and data

  • PHP custom MVC
  • MySQL and Redis
  • OpenSearch analytics
  • REST APIs and webhooks

Cloud and delivery

  • AWS Lambda and ECS
  • Terraform and Docker
  • S3, EventBridge, IAM
  • CI/CD and OIDC

Technical leadership

  • Mentoring and hiring
  • Code review standards
  • Calm incident response
  • Cross-functional guidance

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Reliable, honest, kind, and present.

Those are the words I want colleagues and family to use about me. I enjoy translating complexity into calm decisions, teaching without ego, and building useful things that make people’s work or daily life better.

Reliable ownership through production and handoff
Patient mentorship and direct, respectful communication
Sustained discipline through a daily fitness practice since July 2023
B.S. Software Engineering Technology, Oregon Tech, 2021
Air Force Academy congressional nominee and class salutatorian, 3.96 GPA and 1830/2400 SAT

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Need an AI-native engineer who can own the hard parts?

I’m available for remote U.S. roles in AI evaluation, developer tooling, production integrations, and AI-enabled products where ownership and careful delivery matter.

Sweet Home, OregonU.S. citizenAuthorized to work without sponsorship