Josh Anthony
Owner Developer at Loonicy Entertainment
Apple Valley, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Anthony is a versatile developer and engineering leader with nine years of experience building web and game software, currently running his indie studio Loonicy Entertainment while previously leading frontend and engineering teams at Best Buy. He blends hands-on implementation (React, Laravel, Godot/GDScript) with product-minded leadership—shipping e-commerce checkout and membership experiences as well as a 2D roguelite in development. An active open-source contributor, he improved Laravel’s testing suite by adding a PHPUnit SeeInOrder constraint and related assertions, demonstrating attention to QA and developer ergonomics. Based in Apple Valley, MN, he balances technical depth with people management and mentorship, and brings an unusual creative side—storytelling, music, and film concepts—that informs his approach to game and UX design.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Rochester Community and Technical College
English
Github Skills (8)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
laravel10
laravel-mix10
phpunit10
testing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Backend & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 2 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the testing framework of the Laravel project. They added a new PHPUnit constraint, `SeeInOrder`, along with associated methods in `TestResponse` to assert the order of text within content. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested this new functionality, creating tests for `SeeInOrder` and `SeeTextInOrder` assertions. The user also updated the code to fit the style guide and fixed a doc block.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
Jantho1990/BandTracker
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:16 PRs, 69 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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