Joshua Ashby

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I’m a quick and enthusiastic learner on new technologies and code bases and I’m passionate about continuous growth. I’m experienced with being in knowledge leadership roles. I am comfortable working collaboratively, remotely or on my own.

Primary Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/TypeScript, ReactJS, Svelte, Redis, SQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite, Elasticsearch, CSS

Comfortable Tools & Platforms: Git, Fossil-SCM, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Heroku, AWS, Digital Ocean

Notable Work

As a consultant and contractor, I’ve helped a number of teams refactor and architect large TypeScript/React and Elixir/Phoenix code bases to reduce operational costs, risk of mistakes, and increase developer speed and product alignment.
I architected and developed an extensive in-house ETL framework in Ruby, that transformed data from a number of sources including Elasticsearch, Postgres, Google Sheets, External APIs and Redis into a data lake stored in AWS Redshift.
I’ve developed a browser extension for Chrome which makes a given tab to use a virtual cookie store for a marketing and customer success company to manage multiple client accounts at once. It also provides a number of additional tools for generating links with pre-set UTM parameters as well as storing and copying to the clipboard custom text shortcuts.
I’ve developed a number of browser extensions for Firefox and Chrome, notably one that simplifies the process of scraping data from a website into CSV and JSON formats without needing complex pipelines. Website: https://slothby.club/broom

Professional Experience

Lifespark, LLC - Remote/St. Louis Park, MN (June 2022 — Present)

Staff Data Engineer
Technologies: Python, Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, CUE/Cloudformation, AWS, Bash, TypeScript/ReactJS/React Native, Postgres

Maintaining and implementing new features in a data pipeline using Dagster, dbt and Snowflake.
Managing DevOps on AWS and Heroku infrastructure with CUE and Cloudformation
Maintained and implemented new features in a React Native mobile application
Made use of GraphQL to implement and communicate with a variety of API’s
Built out an internal administrative panel using React

Subatomic Agency - Remote/Denver, CO (January 2021 — May 2022)

Senior Software Engineer
Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, TypeScript/ReactJS, Python/Django, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Terraform, AWS, Bash

Built and maintained a number of Elixir/Phoenix projects, including greenfield and existing ones
Maintained and implemented new features in React projects
Made use of JSON:API and GraphQL for a variety of API’s
Built out administrative panels for many of the API’s using Phoenix
Managed DevOps on AWS and Heroku infrastructure with Terraform
Mentored developers on TypeScript/ReactJS and Elixir/Phoenix paradigms and approaches

Tumbler Lock - Remote/Longmont, CO (August 2019 — December 2020)

Software Engineer, Contractor
Technologies: Ruby/Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, ReactJS, Python, Flask, Postgres, Redis, Terraform, AWS, Bash

Built a React/TypeScript Browser Extension with a API built with Python 3 and Flask
Migrated and modernized a PHP 5/Drupal project to Ruby on Rails 6
Managed DevOps on AWS stacks with Terraform

Singularity Interactive - Boulder, CO (April 2018 — August 2019)

Senior Software Engineer, Backend Tech Lead, Chief Architect
Technologies: NodeJS, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Next.JS/ReactJS, AWS Kinesis/Lambda/S3/Beanstalk

Architected a NodeJS API solution, storing data in Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL, to facilitate survey activities at colleges, report on the survey results and enable discovering campuses for expansion
Mentored junior developers and new hires on best practices, problem solving approaches and code review strategies

Gloo - Boulder, CO (May 2014 — April 2018)

Software Engineer, Data/ETL Engineer
Technologies: Ruby, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL/AWS Redshift, Ruby on Rails, Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS

Principle engineer of a Ruby based ETL which maintains a Star-Schema normalized data warehouse that account managers and leadership use to report on customer engagement and platform health
Implemented a data ingest API in Java, supported by AWS SNS/SQS and later Apache Kafka
Worked with the frontend teams to contribute bug fixes to Angular 1.6, Android, and iOS apps
Supported the backend team’s Ruby on Rails application

Education

Sparkfun Electronics - Niwot, CO (Summers of 2012, 2013) - Software Developer Intern Technologies: PHP, MySQL, Postgres, JavaScript

Colorado State University - Fort Collins, CO (August 2012 — May 2015)

Studied Electrical Computer Engineering
Worked on electrical and software projects within the CSU Formula-SAE race team

Projects

I have a lot of side projects in a variety of languages and for a variety of purposes, many of which are open sourced on my Github. Here’s a sampling of my prouder projects:

Broom - A Chrome and Firefox browser extension for scraping websites with an easy to use interface.
Technologies Svelte, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Vite.js

Raton - An open source RSS Feed Aggregator bundled into a Firefox browser extension.
Technologies Svelte, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, Vite.js
Repository https://bones.isin.space/user/JoshAshby/repository/raton

These projects are closed for regisitration but are open sourced:

https://transientbug.ninja - Open source bookmarking service with a supporting browser extension. Crawls a bookmark to create a local “archive” copy.
Technologies: Ruby on Rails 7, Stimulus.JS 2, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
Repository: https://github.com/transientBug/transientbug-rails/

https://bones.isin.space - Open source Fossil-SCM hosting service
Technologies: Roda, Sequel, SQLite, Fossil, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.JS
Repository: https://bones.isin.space/user/JoshAshby/repository/Bones

https://pleasedonot.rob.fish - Open source Image/Gif/Video host. Uses ffmpeg and VIPS to optimize and create a variety of formats from the upload.
Technologies: Roda, Sequel, Shrine, SQLite, Ffmpeg, VIPS, Tailwind CSS, Alpine.JS/Stimulus.JS
Repository: https://bones.isin.space/user/JoshAshby/repository/PleaseDoNotRobFish