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Joshua Wilson

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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  • The New York Times
    Senior Software Engineer
    The New York Times
    Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 4 months)
    Drove development across multiple React/TypeScript applications, a federated GraphQL supergraph, and Go/Rails services, simplified architecture and improved reliability, enabling new product capabilities to be delivered at scale. Engineered a dynamic newsletter sign-up module integrating the supergraph with a Go-based targeting platform to apply user-specific filters, increasing impressions 14x and click-through rates 3x, contributing to subscription growth. Authored technical design and discovery documents that were adopted as team standards, aligning Product, Data, and Engineering on scope and risk, reducing ambiguity and de-risking launches. Implemented expanded targeting logic for app-download messaging using user-activity data, increas
  • Zinnia
    Senior Full Stack Engineer
    Zinnia
    Aug 2022 - Jun 2023 (11 months)
    Served as a primary developer for Zinnia Live, a greenfield React/Next.js/TypeScript frontend, balancing scalability trade-offs with delivery timelines, shipping a production-ready MVP to stakeholders on schedule. Optimized build performance and introduced ephemeral QA/preview environments, aligning the cross-functional team on new workflows, shortening feedback cycles and accelerating product and design iteration. Collaborated with Design on the Bloom component library, reviewing and refactoring core components to improve performance, functionality, and styling, supporting consistent branding while enabling partner-specific customization.
  • Policygenius
    Full Stack Engineer
    Policygenius
    Jul 2020 - Aug 2022 (2 years 2 months)
    Led engineering for a life-insurance cost calculator from discovery through experimentation, partnering cross-functionally on design, defining technical requirements, and overseeing A/B testing, achieving 60% engagement and 90% completion rates, measurably customer data capture. Reduced font-loading time and CSS-in-JS overhead across the site, achieving
  • Rithm School
    Software Engineer
    Rithm School
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2020 (3 years 1 month)
    Led 2-3 students per team in delivering production-grade features for external clients using TypeScript, GraphQL, and React. Engineered numerous functionalities for an in-house, white-labeled, student management system with 1000+ of users written in Django using Python. Built a Django/Python REST API from scratch in 2 months, supporting 100+ users internally and externally. Achieved 100% test coverage using Jest, Vitest, and React Testing Library, and Django Unittest reducing post-deployment bugs and ensuring integrity of core curriculum exercises. Wrote internal documentation and tooling, reducing student setup, onboarding and debugging time from 4+ hours to 1 hour.
  • Rithm School
    Software Engineer Intern
    Rithm School
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2017 (1 year 1 month)
    Wrote unit tests for Student Information services website. Designed, wrote, and tested a form in Django to allow authenticated users to add events to the upcoming curriculum. Designed and prototyped a React-Native App based on the student information services web application. Wrote custom API routes to manage data on the front-end application. Refactored existing codebase to include new functionality for receiving, storing, and displaying Enrollment/Withdrawal forms. Designed and implemented several JSON serializers for backend API calls. Used GIT versioning software to branch and compose pull requests for all of the implemented code that was written.
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  • University of Alaska Anchorage
    Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
    University of Alaska Anchorage
    Jan 2012 - Jan 2016 (4 years 1 month)