Josh Kimbrel
Owner at OxBlue
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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SeniorJosh Kimbrel is a seasoned software leader and founder with 25+ years of experience delivering scalable web applications. As Owner of Airtight Design since 2024 and CTO of OxBlue since 2023, he blends hands-on development with strategic engineering leadership to drive customer-centric outcomes. He previously led OxBlue as VP of Engineering (2020–2023) and built and maintained dozens of PHP web apps at Airtight Design, rising from Lead Developer to CTO. His roots run through LAMP-era open source stacks (CakePHP, Zend Framework, Joomla), giving him end-to-end ownership from backend systems to frontend experiences. Based in Atlanta, GA, he champions a pragmatic, customer-first north star across both a boutique agency and a scalable product environment. He has a track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software while mentoring teams to ship with quality and speed.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
plugin10
rbac9
cakephp8
php7
database-migrations6
cakephp36
migrations4
mailgun4
mysql4
database4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jkimbrel/utilities
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jkimbrel/migrations
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
CakePHP 3.0 database migrations plugin
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 days
mysqlphpdatabase-migrationsdatabasemigrations
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