Josh Allen
Lead Software Engineer React at Hilton
Newport, Arkansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Allen is a Lead Software Engineer specializing in React with 14 years of full-stack experience building and leading teams across enterprise and healthcare environments. He combines strong frontend expertise with backend and API integration experience, including e-commerce, ERP, and third-party systems, and has delivered production software at Hilton and St. Jude. Josh has held multiple engineering leadership roles where he guided Agile teams, mentored engineers, and balanced hands-on development with architectural decisions. His open-source contributions include low-level C work decoding lighthouse tracking data in the libsurvive project, demonstrating comfort with systems programming beyond typical web stacks. Based in Newport, Arkansas, he brings a practical, cross-domain perspective—equally at home shipping React interfaces or debugging device-level protocols. Collected experience across startups and large organizations gives him a track record of turning complex integration requirements into maintainable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Arkansas State UniversityTuckerman High School
Github Skills (15)
c1710
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
c1110
crc10
parsing10
data-structure9
data-structures9
lighthouse9
gear-vr7
webvr7
openvr7
steamvr7
react-vr7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
collabora/libsurvive
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Open Source Lighthouse Tracking System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on developing and debugging the `ootx_decode` tool within the repository. Their contributions include implementing an OOTX decoder, including CRC checking, and expanding the functionality to decode lighthouse data. The changes involved modifications to C code, including new files and functions to handle packet decoding and data processing. Furthermore, the user added support for parsing calibration values from device JSON files.
htc-vivelighthouseopenvrtrackinghmd
axlecrusher/hgengine3
May 2017 - Sep 2020
Third generation Mercury engine.
Contributions:696 commits, 10 PRs, 348 pushes in 3 years 4 months
javamercury
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