I’m Josh — a full stack developer and leader with over 15 years of experience designing and maintaining SaaS billing systems and control panels. Expert in API server and client implementation and integration. Extensive background in web hosting and Linux systems administration. Highly productive on remote, agile teams.

Work Experience

Director of Software Development — A2 Hosting, Inc (Remote)

Aug 2019 - Present

Lead the software development team responsible for maintaining the customer billing system and control panels servicing over 110,000 clients and 385,000 WordPress sites. Spearheaded architecture, design, and development of custom Laravel PHP applications TurboHub, a control panel for managing WordPress websites on over 5,000 remote machines using WP-CLI, RabbitMQ, and Bash; and GoCart, a custom shopping cart powered by custom WHMCS APIs. Worked directly with the executive team to plan, architect, and execute all company-wide software projects via scrum. Utilized PHP, Laravel, MySQL, JavaScript, and Bash. Promoted from Sr. Software Developer to Director in Feb 2020.

Senior Developer — Envato Pty Ltd. (Remote)

Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

Worked with Site Reliability Engineering team to maintain performance and security on ThemeForest.net, one of the world’s largest Ruby on Rails sites by traffic. Duties included implementing bug-fixes, performance improvements, regular platform and dependency updates, responding to on-call issues, and general support. Implemented internal tooling for on-call rotations using PagerDuty and AWS Lambda. Utilized Ruby on Rails, Bash, and AWS (EC2, CloudFormation, S3, RDS, Lambda).

Senior Software Engineer — Pressed Platform, Inc (Remote)

Jul 2015 - Jul 2017

Worked with executive team and developers on planning, development, QA, and release of new features for our Ruby on Rails based billing and WordPress hosting platforms via scrum. Led architecture, design, and development of Pressed Bundles, a key feature that allowed partner WordPress agencies to configure and automatically install their themes and plugins for their clients. Oversaw all development and migration efforts to move payment processors from Litle/Vantiv to Braintree across all partner order forms. Interviewed and onboarded new developers. Frequently contributed to open source Ruby, Bash, and PHP projects used by Pressed engineers and the greater WordPress community. Pressed was acquired by Envato in September 2017.

Software Engineer — World Wide Web Hosting, LLC (Remote)

May 2011 - Jul 2015

Worked with the software engineering team to build and maintain several internally used systems for staff and customers to manage web hosting services. Was responsible for maintenance and new features implemented for our legacy billing system, Synco, and its replacement, Helix. Oversaw the successful migration of several thousand customers from WHMCS systems into Helix. Regularly assisted other engineers with on-boarding and code reviews. Was the project lead for our Website.me product and oversaw its initial development and deployment. Frequently contributed to and helped manage our open source projects on GitHub.

Software Engineer — HostRocket.com, Inc (Clifton Park, NY)

Dec 2008 - May 2011

Led development for several key projects for ViaTalk and DotBlock (both subsidiaries of HostRocket). Implemented ViaTalk PBX, the web application responsible for handling hundreds of daily support calls for all HostRocket companies. Was responsible for maintenance and security updates for the ViaTalk customer/staff control panel; the web application powering Ennouncement.com; the external order form used for DotBlock; and DotBlock’s v1 iPhone application.

Skills

API Integration, AWS, awk, Apache, Asterisk, BDD, Bash Scripting, CSS, Capybara, CentOS, Chef, CoffeeScript, Command Line, Customer Service, Git, GitHub, GitHub Pages, JavaScript, Jekyll, Let’s Encrypt, Linux, macOS, Meta-programming, MiniTest, MySQL, NGINX, PHP, PHPUnit, Payment Gateway Integration, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Rack, Rails Engines, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RubyGem Development, sed, SCSS (Sass), Scrum, Sidekiq, Sinatra, Technical Support, Troubleshooting, Twitter Bootstrap, Ubuntu, Unit Testing, Vagrant, Vim, Vim Plugin Development, VoIP, WP-CLI, Web Hosting, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Development