Josh Duff

me@JoshDuff.com

I like to work on boring-sounding business software that people use to get their jobs done.

I prefer to work as a project manager+developer, interacting directly with customers and translating business requirements into deliverables.

I've worked for employers with 10-40 developers that shipped buggy software slowly. I've worked for employers with 2-4 developers that shipped great software reliably. I prefer the latter.

Previous employers

Workshop (internal communications) 2023-current

Developed an email editor to replace a third-party whitelabeled editor.

T.Rex Arms (ecommerce, fulfillment, manufacturing in the firearm accessories industry), 2020-2023

Worked primarily on the internal software that coordinated inventory, sales, fulfillment, customer service, manufacturing.

EquipmentShare (heavy construction equipment industry), 2019-2020

Developed the front-end of a payroll administration webapp.

Duff Ventures (consulting) 2017-2019

I worked as a freelancer, mostly serving clients in the publishing and customer service industries.

Cake (consumer software), 2016-2017 (remote)

With two other developers, added features and fixed bugs to get the node.js/Express/React app Cake closer to shipping.

eDataSource (email marketing industry), 2013-2016 (remote)

• With a team of 3-4 developers:
  • Built and maintained a distributed Java application that processes millions of emails per day, indexing the commercial email campaigns and storing the results in MySQL and ElasticSearch
  • Developed a client-facing AngularJS application Email Analyst, used by email marketers to determine the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and diagnose email deliverability problems
  • Maintained Boxbe, a spam-filtering service used by 1M+ users
• Built the internal admin site used to manage the domain/brand/company taxonomy, and administrate client user accounts

ISoft Data Systems (car parts and heavy truck parts industries), 2005-2013

In roughly chronological order:

• Maintenance and feature development for an inventory/point of sale application built with C++/MySQL
• Made a minimal CRM tool for internal support use, using PHP and MySQL
• Made a time-tracking system with a PHP/MySQL back-end
• Worked with partner customers to develop an enterprise application for the heavy truck parts industry
• Made a push-based replication tool for MySQL databases
• Became lead developer/designer of legacy Windows application
• Codified standards for internal documentation in the company wiki, curating and maintaining all input
• Made an XMPP chatbot for use in company chat rooms using C++/Gloox
• Made an application for performing queries directly against Quickbooks company files
• Made a prototype for a PhoneGap-capable mobile version of parts search portal HeavyTruckParts.net with jQuery Mobile, PHP, TinyMVC
• Made a web application for enterprise inventory software, for use on mobile hardware with barcode scanners
• Made a client framework in JavaScript capable of running in Windows CE's IE6, and Safari Mobile
• Made API frameworks for the server-side in both PHP and JavaScript (using node.js)

As the sole phone support tech during my first year at ISoft:

• Handled all incoming support calls for a Windows-based application
• Maintained and added to a suite of reports built with Crystal Reports and MySQL queries
• Travelled to customer locations to perform installations and training

Open source

Larger projects

• spyfallx.com, an implementation of a popular tabletop party game
• abstract-state-router, a framework-agnostic nested state router for web applications
• susdsearch.com, an improved search site for some of my favorite reviewers
• canonreader.com, a Bible reader

Plus hundreds of other JS libraries on GitHub.

Familiar Technologies

Delivered products/features using:

• JavaScript
  • node.js
  • AngularJS
  • React
  • Redux
  • Svelte
  • Express
  • Koa
  • Vue
• Java
• PHP
• C++
• Databases
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • ElasticSearch
  • Redis
• CircleCI