Joseph Gentle
Research Fellow at Invisible College
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Gentle is a research-focused software engineer and technology leader with 17 years of experience building realtime, collaborative systems and scalable web infrastructure from Melbourne. He’s served as CTO and Senior Software Architect while also holding a Research Fellow role, blending hands-on engineering with product and team leadership. Joseph is an active open-source contributor with notable work on Selenium (iPhone iWebDriver), Derby/Racer and ShareJS, reflecting deep expertise in realtime sync, browser automation and full-stack JavaScript systems. He helped scale a Node.js realtime stack to dozens of servers at Lever and designed interruption-less deployment and load-balanced realtime services. Equally comfortable writing low-level protocol code and shipping production platforms, he has a strong academic grounding with first-class honors in Computer Science from UNSW. A less obvious strength is his knack for improving engineering culture—introducing testing, code review and developer-led quality practices at multiple teams.
18 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st class Honors, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, 1st class Honors at University of New South WalesUNSW Sydney
Stackoverflow
1,192reputation
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7answers
4questions
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Github Skills (37)
algorithm10
mvc-framework10
unit-testing10
objective-c10
algorithms10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
webdriver10
coffeescript10
back-end-development10
websocket10
implement10
browserify10
nodejs10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
josephg/noisejs
Jul 2012 - Mar 2017
Javascript 2D Perlin & Simplex noise functions
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the `noisejs` project by adding and refining noise generation functions. They added `perlin3` and `simplex3` functions to generate 3D noise and then added a demo for 3D noise using simplex noise. Further work included fixing range issues, adding the ability to swap between `perlin3` and `simplex3`, and refactoring the demo.
javascriptsimplex-noise
josephg/ShareJS
Feb 2011 - Oct 2015
Collaborative editing in any app
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:716 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Joseph added and tested client stream features and fixed bugs within the collaborative editing application. The code changes mainly involved the addition of CoffeeScript code within the test, client and server directory to enable tests, implement and fix bugs within the client stream functionality. The user was also involved in changing the client-server API.
collaborative-editing
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