Josh Chisholm
Principal Engineer at Forbes Advisor
London, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorJosh Chisholm is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently driving architecture and delivery at Forbes Advisor in London. He combines hands-on full-stack development with leadership, having directed Featurist from 2011 to 2023 and pursued freelance software development before joining Forbes. His work includes test automation and tooling, with notable open-source contributions to Coypu—the .NET browser automation project—adding inner/outer HTML access, NUnit upgrades, regex support, and faster testing via SelfishHttp. His career also spans roles at Everware and BBC in testing-focused positions, reflecting a pattern of building reliable systems across media and startup environments. Based in the United Kingdom, he consistently delivers scalable software while helping teams deliver more effectively.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (11)
net10
nunit10
dotnet10
csharp10
aspnet10
dotnet-core10
browser-automation10
testing10
html9
regular-expression8
regular-expressions8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
featurist/coypu
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Intuitive, robust browser automation for .Net
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the Coypu project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to browser automation for .Net. They added functionality for getting the inner and outer HTML of elements, improving the test suite by upgrading NUnit, and adding regular expression matching capabilities. They also refactored code to include SelfishHttp for faster testing. The contributions also span across multiple files and technologies, demonstrating a full-stack approach.
dotnetbrowserweb-automationpageobjectphantomjs
bbc/bbc-a11y
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
BBC Accessibility Guidelines Checker
Contributions:318 commits, 138 PRs, 276 pushes in 2 years 8 months
checkera11ybbcguidelinesaxe
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