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

Subatomic Agency - 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 - 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

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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