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Hello, I'm Joe Metzner

I build front-endsthat feel designed,down to the pixel.

Front-End Developer & Product Builder. Shipping enterprise UI at Integrity Express Logistics and running Haus of Pixels, my own web-design studio.

Currently open to full-time front-end roles.

The proof

Numbers, not adjectives.

Four years at the same company, consistently near the top of the team on output, speed, and reliability.

1,200+

commits on the core Nexus platform

Ranked #5 of 20 developers
34

months of zero-gap production deploys

Every month, no misses
300

files merged in a single PR

Solo icon-library swap, paid to open-source
24hr

average code-to-production turnaround

2nd fastest of 16 developers
Experience

Integrity Express Logistics

Software Engineering Associate

Cincinnati, OH · 2022 to present

Started as an intern, offered a full-time front-end role. I develop, enhance, and maintain UI across internal enterprise applications, partnering closely with product to turn fuzzy requirements into clean, maintainable interfaces.

  1. Standardized the component layer

    Modernized legacy UI tables onto a shared component library, improving consistency and enabling scalable reuse across multiple codebases.

  2. Merged a 300-file PR solo

    Replaced a paid icon library with an open-source alternative across 300 front-end files, then replicated it in a second application after being hand-selected for the work.

  3. Designed in the absence of a designer

    Drove UI layout and interaction decisions when no dedicated designer was available, strengthening usability and visual consistency.

  4. Shipped with a reliable cadence

    Wrote developer documentation, cleared tickets across every complexity level, and maintained strong first-pass QA acceptance.

Stack

Tools I reach for.

React and Vue day to day, TypeScript throughout, and enough back-end to be dangerous with Laravel and MySQL.

Front-End

  • React
  • Vue
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • InertiaJS
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Axios / Fetch

Back-End

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • REST APIs
  • Blade
  • Composer

Tooling

  • Git
  • Vite
  • Docker
  • Claude Code
  • VS Code
  • JetBrains
  • Jira / Confluence
What I'm building

The work is just getting started.

I ship my own products, not just tickets. Here is what has my attention right now.

Haus of Pixels

Live · evolving

One-person web-design studio · Cincinnati

My own studio: custom websites built from scratch for small businesses across the tri-state. No templates, no page-builders. Proof that I ship real products, not just tickets.

Visit the live site
The Haus of Pixels website homepage, Joe's web-design studio brand
Built from scratchNo templatesReal paying clientsDesigned and shipped soloNext.jsReactTailwind CSSVercel
In the lab

Sports AI tools

Consumer AI products for college football and Premier League fans, built on modern LLM APIs.

In the lab

JobHunter

A personal desktop app (Tauri) that tracks and streamlines the job search end to end.

About

About

I took an unusual route into engineering. I studied Sports Administration at the University of Cincinnati, then went back for a Computer Programming degree and graduated with a 4.0. That mix, understanding people and building software, is exactly how I work now.

At Integrity Express Logistics I grew from intern to a trusted front-end contributor, consistently near the top of the team on output and speed. Outside of work I run a small web-design company and build my own products, because the fastest way to get better is to ship.