Oct 2022 – Jun 2023 · 8 mos · New York, New York, United States · Remote

• Established a comprehensive component design system utilizing Storybook. This system significantly improved our ability to reuse components across various features, streamlining development, and enhancing consistency across the app.
• Collaborated closely with the engineering and design team to help build out new features and
• migrate existing Next.js/XState features over to SolidJS. Their Next.js app was having really bad
• performance issues with XState and the architecture wasn't scaling so we switched to SolidJS.
• Collaborated with the engineering and product team to setup an Analytics event tracking system that we reused throughout our monorepo across different apps to track various user metrics across Amplitude and Google Tag Manager/Analytics

Jul 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Diego, California, United States · Remote

• Designed and implemented scalable APIs using GraphQL/AppSync and multiple in-house and third-party APIs using AWS Lambda, Step Functions and other AWS technologies that serve millions of IMEI device check requests daily and support device trade-ins.
• Developed systems to help maintain and enhance the device trade-in system and CMS used for editing products and page content using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, React, Ruby on Rails, Cognito, Event Bridge, AWS Fargate, Postgres, New Relic, Webpack, RSpec, CircleCI, Shopify Liquid, Contentful
• Developed systems to help maintain and enhance the device trade-in system and CMS used for editing products and page content using AWS Lambda, Step Functions, React, Ruby on Rails, Cognito, Event Bridge, AWS Fargate, Postgres, New Relic, Webpack, RSpec, CircleCI, Shopify Liquid, Contentful

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Remote

• We design and develop custom software solutions for businesses.

Sep 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · New York, NY · On-site

• Ralph is a Creative Agency that works with clients including; Netflix, Spotify, Stella Artois, Slack, Nickelodeon, NBC Universal, Sony Television, and Sony Music.

Dec 2015 – Nov 2016 · 11 mos · New York, NY

• LiveWith is the 1st mobile app that centralizes the process of finding your ideal roommate(s), and renting an owner or management listed apartment (database of 100,000+) that suits you and your roommates' combined preferences.
• We help users everywhere rent verified apartments they couldn't previously afford or get accepted to by leveraging the unified power of roommates and technology. LiveWith will change the way people rent apartments in major cities.
• Features:
• 1. Innovative algorithm shows roommates that fit your personality and lifestyle preferences
• 2. In-app messaging with matches
• 3. Live Video for optimal verification, connection, and showing apartments to each other
• 4. Browse map/list view of NYC apartments that our algorithm determines fit you and each of your matches' combined budgets, neighborhoods, and apartment preferences
• 5. Schedule viewings and apply for apartments
• From matching you with roommates to renting an apartment together—LiveWith is with you all the way!

Sep 2015 – Jan 2016 · 4 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Reserve is a digital concierge service focused on making every part of the dining experience better, for both restaurants and diners. We're building a better way for guests to dine and restaurants to accommodate more diners. Although we're a tech company, we understand that humanity is at the core of hospitality. Our technology improves the process for both sides, and works in the background so guests can enjoy an amazing experience at the restaurant. We've partnered with some of the top names in dining -- from Michelin-starred restaurants to James Beard award-winning chefs -- to enable an exceptional experience for restaurants and guests before, during, and after their meal.
• Reserve is venture-backed and headquartered in New York City with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston. The app is available to download for free for iOS and Android.

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos · Brooklyn, NY

• Namely’s platform enables people to manage their entire human capital management process in a single, unified system. Payroll, benefits administration, time tracking, performance management, PTO and integrated reporting are all part of Namely. We work with hundreds of great companies around the world including Birchbox, Thrillist, Hailo, Vimeo, Saatchi & Saatchi, Mashable, Rent the Runway, and MDC Partners.
• Namely is based in New York City.

Sep 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New York, NY

• Reach out if you'd like to host, sponsor, speak or participate!

Mar 2014 – Jan 2015 · 10 mos · New York, NY

• Working with CoffeeScript, Marionette, Backbone, Hamlc, Ruby on Rails, CI, Load Testing, AWS ( EC2, RDS, Elasticache with Redis and Memcached, Route53, Cloudfront ) and many other cool things.
• PINCHme is the largest active online community (1,000,000+) of primary household shoppers interested in trying new products, connecting with brands (CRM), sharing on social media, completing reviews and purchasing!
• PINCHme has now completed over 175 campaigns and shipped more than 3.5 million samples for many of the world’s leading CPG brands – something we are very proud of!
• Campaign results have exceeded all expectations. We have been fortunate to have attracted all the major manufacturers as clients (Johnson & Johnson, P&G, Unilever, L’Oreal, Revlon, Coty, Pfizer, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Kellogg’s, etc) plus a host of up and coming exciting manufacturers.
• In summary, PINCHme efficiently:
• creates significant awareness for manufacturers;
• offers products to the right consumer with no wastage;
• delivers customized insights in real time;
• encourages members to join CRM platforms;
• encourages members to complete ratings & reviews, allowing for strong peer to peer endorsement of products;
• increases sales via "buy now" links to retailers (including print coupons).
• Want to find out more and see how your brand can benefit? Get in touch with us by emailing hello@pinch.me or check out our website at http://pinchme.com

Aug 2013 – Jan 2014 · 5 mos · New York, NY

Aug 2012 – Jan 2013 · 5 mos · Jersey City, NJ

Jul 2012 – Nov 2012 · 4 mos · Palm coast, FL

• Built a dynamic form for automotive valuation ex: Used/New,Model,Make,Year,Trim,Condition,Mileage
• Put together dynamic AJAX dialogs that tell you different valuations based on user conditions
• Used and Private prices were fetched from multiple API collections
• Working with Agile team using SVN and Jira for task management
• Working on home value forecaster which shows you a forecast of data throughout the years including income per household,residents,average house value,business annual payroll,existing mean and median prices, and change of price from 2003-2012
• Integrated Geocoding with Google to show a street view of your property
• Built a core reusable function from 8 previous existing functions for grabbing data from different regions and categories
• Integrated Ziptastic to fill in State and City info using AJAX based on ZIP code
• Used Fiddler for tracking requests and checking outputted data
• Integrated multiple XML/JSON data feeds into charts using Highcharts.js
• Created a state and regional US map with raphael.js using scalable vector graphics(SVG) which fetch/display data according to location
• Setup forms for multiple valuation data feeds
• Integrated intro video on homepage using HTML5 and full device support

Jun 2012 – Jul 2012 · 1 mo

• They had a few websites with really big speed problems my job was to optimize them
• Optimized the existing JavaScript and reduced the lines of code
• Relocated all JavaScript after the body tag to eliminate white page flashing for slower
• connection speeds
• Minimized CSS and JavaScript files with online minifiers
• Combined all external JavaScript libraries into one HTTP Request
• Changed server settings for browser leverage caching and GZIP using Apache
• Reduced the image sizes and added image sizes the semantically correct way through HTML
• to speed up image rendering
• Minimized the images using Smush.it recommended by ySlow
• Ran the sites through tests on multiple speed test sites acquiring a rating of A
• Josh did an amazing job ! he is very skilled with website optimization ! He is one
• of the best in his field on Odesk ! Will hire again.

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo

• Did Wordpress and Frontend development of a lottery website that goes across 32 domains
• Also optimized website so it aquired an "A" rating with ySlow and GTmetrix.com
• Optimized Images and created sprite sheets to lower HTTP Requests
• Worked on PSD to HTML conversion and integrating it with their existing modules
• Striking Alchemy HTML5/JavaScript Developer - Buffalo, NY - present
• Converted PSD files put together by Striking Alchemy's designer into HTML5 and CSS3
• layouts using Grid Frameworks and Mobile Responsive techniques
• Developed a jQuery script for turning existing main nav into a mobile select box on
• mobile devices - Link here
• Helped come up with ideas for rebranding of Striking Alchemy formerly known as Long Dog
• Marketing
• Used Social Networks to help businesses and startups gain followers
• Used CSS3 keyframe animations and border-radius to animate bubbles coming out of a
• flask in the main menu
• Created Dynamic product pages and jQuery interactions for Ecommerce sites using
• Wordpress and Big Commerce
• Built Custom reusable gallery using jQuery and integrated with lightCMS
• Coded a custom lightweight testimonial slider with jQuery and no external dependencies
• Integrated company Tumblr posts, Instagram gallery, and recent Facebook statuses with
• each company's API
• Used @font-face for rendering custom fonts along with YUI CSS reset for crisp anti-
• aliasing on the fonts

Apr 2012 – Sep 2012 · 5 mos · Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Converted PSD files put together by Striking Alchemy's designer into HTML5 and CSS3 layouts using Grid Frameworks and Mobile Responsive techniques
• Developed a jQuery script for turning existing main nav into a mobile select box on mobile devices - Link here
• Helped come up with ideas for rebranding of Striking Alchemy formerly known as Long Dog Marketing
• Used Social Networks to help businesses and startups gain followers
• Used CSS3 keyframe animations and border-radius to animate bubbles coming out of a flask in the main menu
• Created Dynamic product pages and jQuery interactions for Ecommerce sites using Wordpress and Big Commerce
• Built Custom reusable gallery using jQuery and integrated with lightCMS
• Coded a custom lightweight testimonial slider with jQuery and no external dependencies
• Integrated company Tumblr posts, Instagram gallery, and recent Facebook statuses with each company's API
• Used @font-face for rendering custom fonts along with YUI CSS reset for crisp anti-aliasing on the fonts

Mar 2012 – May 2012 · 2 mos

• Created email templates and made sure they worked in all email clients using MailChimp
• and other web applications for testing
• Was sent InDesign images and made precise HTML templates of the original design
• Did A/B testing on email templates before running email campaigns
• Also developed and worked on various Wordpress projects from the ground up
• Skills/Resources used
• HTML, Wordpress, CSS3/CSS, UI Design patterns, MailChimp, Big Commerce, Email templates
• Michael Mahemoff Web/HTML5 Developer - London - 06/01/2012
• He needed a competent HTML5 + JavaScript developer for browser extensions and
• bookmarklet work.
• Worked on a Chrome browser extension that allows you to automate Twitter tasks such as
• logging out,logging in, and registering multiple accounts with activation links
• All work was done through github using GIT to pull and push updates
• Used Freshbooks for project budgeting and task management
• Also worked with Kango Extensions which are browser extensions that have full browser
• support coded in JavaScript
• Skills/Resources used
• HTML5, CSS3/CSS, UI, JavaScript, jQuery, Browser Extensions
• A talented web developer.

Mar 2012 – Apr 2012 · 1 mo

• Worked on various Wordpress websites
• Integrated social network APIs into Wordpress websites
• Converted PSDs to semantic HTML5 and CSS/CSS3 websites using jQuery for UI interaction
• Created custom Wordpress plugins to meet clients needs
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, Wordpress, CSS3/CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Apache

Mar 2012 – Mar 2012 · 0 mo

• Coded a script for a rating system used on news/blog articles
• Created a div that scrolled inside it's container and not outside during the window
• scroll event with jQuery
• Made it reusable so multiple instances could be initiated at once
• Skills/Resources used
• XHTML, CSS3/CSS, jQuery, JavaScript
• Got the job done very quickly! Exactly did what I asked for. Thanks!

Jul 2011 – Feb 2012 · 7 mos

• My job was to build a web application allowing users to register through Facebook or
• the site and create prayers on a map with markers (similiar to Google Maps), They also
• needed group leaders to have admin access over everybody in each group allowing them to
• reposition markers for members
• Implemented Facebook connect using PHP SDK and Facebook's JavaScript SDK, If registered
• with Facebook it shows your profile pic for the avatar
• Used MVC architecture to make things as simple as possible by seperating the frontend
• and backend
• Used jQuery UI drag and drop for interaction on markers along with a custom jQuery
• tooltip that fetched a JSON document of information for each marker
• Used jQuery/AJAX to make saving a marker and deleting a marker as well as other things
• asynchronous
• Created a jQuery drop down menu on the home page display member leaders along with
• their marker color
• Used a transparent marker and CSS3 to color each marker so they were dynamic and didn't
• need a sprite sheet of multiple images for colors
• Implemented a jQuery color picker allowing group members to chose their marker color
• when registering
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, MVC, XHTML, XML, CSS3/CSS, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery UI, JSON, JavaScript, Photoshop,
• Apache, Mod Rewrite, Linux

Jun 2011 – Sep 2011 · 3 mos

• They were looking for somebody who deals with wordpress day in and day out
• I was assigned to create Wordpress themes within 1-2 day periods
• Used creative methods to simplify Wordpress processes and be reusable
• Coded plugins and functions to meet clients requirements for each project

May 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

May 2011 – Jun 2011 · 1 mo

• Created Wordpress websites and restaraunt websites along with using custom
• jQuery/javascript and PHP code for custom implementations
• Also converted PSD files into WC3 Valid XHTML
• Built a custom plugin in Wordpress allowing users to display store location with Google
• Maps
• Worked on multiple projects at once and met deadlines
• Integrated multiple social network APIS to meet clients needs
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, Wordpress, XHTML, CSS3/CSS, jQuery, jQuery UI, Facebook API, Twitter API, Google
• Maps API, Apache, Linux, Photoshop, AJAX
• Great guy to work with. Very knowledgeable.

Apr 2011 – Jun 2011 · 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area

• Worked on a Groupon clone built using CakePHP which is an MVC framework
• Was needed to modify an existing, proprietary CakePHP-based CMS site to meet the
• specific needs of clients, advertisers and merchants as desired
• Implemented new site features (e.g., a condition-based referral system with tracking,
• user input fly-ins, an image slideshow, and created/integrated a calendar script with
• existing database using CakePHP/jQuery/JSON)
• Worked with a very large application structure and setup automated backups to
• sandbox/development servers using Bash and Perl
• Redesigned the appearance of the existing site using interactive technologies and A/B
• testing to find the best conversion rate
• Used SEO white hat practices
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, CakePHP, MVC, XHTML, SEO, CSS3/CSS, Photoshop, AJAX, jQuery, JSON, XML, jQuery UI,
• MailChimp, Apache, Linux/grep commands
• Sharp fella, but he was too overloaded for the task at hand. He's got his
• priorities straight and that's understandable.

Apr 2011 – Apr 2011 · 0 mo

• Converted a PDF/PowerPoint presentation into an HTML5 version using jQuery libraries
• Also used jQuery Fancybox for AJAX pages that would popup on certain links
• Created the whole design from Adobe Indesign images sent over and recreated a lot of
• images with CSS3 where possible
• Skills/Resources used
• PowerPoint, HTML5, CSS3/CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, Photoshop, AJAX
• Produced quality code and was very responsive to updates. Not a full time developer
• (student) so plan plenty of time to get your project up and running fully.
• Gridironstuds.com Developer/Programmer - Miramar, FL - 05/02/2011
• Created a website where high school students could submit football highlight videos
• which can be viewed by colleges for recruiting
• Converted Photoshop design to valid and semantic XHTML/CSS
• Used rulers for measurement of padding and margins in Photoshop while slicing PSD files
• Built with PHP using a lightweight MVC framework I built
• Created a custom jQuery script to get the highlight videos from Youtube for each
• player's profile
• Also setup the client's existing Wordpress blog with a new design to match the rest of
• the site and transferred over his existing data to the new installation
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, MVC, Youtube API, Wordpress, XHTML, CSS3/CSS, jQuery, Apache, Photoshop, AJAX
• I don't have words for how good Josh was. He's a 5 star programmer for sure. He
• went above and beyond the task. It was a joy to employ a person that loves what they do.
• As a result I got top quality work. A first class programmer.

Mar 2011 – Nov 2011 · 8 mos

• Designed modules with Balsamiq and developed with XHTML/CSS3
• Used GIT and Task Management/Bug Tracking Tools for the Development process
• Worked on the UI and development process for allowing users to create resumes and cover
• letters based off of our existing templates or previously saved templates
• Used A/B testing to figure out best color for interaction on buy buttons
• Created and developed the frontpage layout
• Created the drop down navigation when logged in along with each icon used
• Suggested and added tooltips to form areas where users may be confused
• Worked on marketing and SEO to get the website ranked on the first page for certain
• keywords and phrases
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, MVC, XHTML, SEO, CSS3/CSS, Photoshop, AJAX, jQuery, jQuery UI, JSON, UI Design
• Patterns

Mar 2011 – Apr 2011 · 1 mo

• Created a Customer Relations Manager (CRM) that was self hosted and built with my own
• MVC framework used for lightweight projects
• Also created a PHP Install script so the client could install easily on any server
• Used jQuery and AJAX libraries to make things like forgot password, login, deleting,
• and adding clients/projects/tasks asynchronus and more interactive
• Used Balsamiq mockups for the UI design process
• Also had the PHP script generate a DOC and CSV file with user data and project budgets
• Implemented a masked input for phone numbers, making user input more simple and getting
• rid of any possible bugs from incorrect data input
• Used jQuery validation plugin with JSON to validate required fields
• Skills/Resources used
• PHP, jQuery, Photoshop, XHTML, CSS/CSS3, AJAX, Apache, Mod Rewrite
• Definitely choose Josh. He is a student and is very ambitious to figure things out.
• He's also a great guy!