Josh Branchaud
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Branchaud is an independent software developer and consultant in Chicago with 14 years of experience building well-tested web applications using Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and TypeScript/React. He helps businesses strategically design and maintain web apps that deliver real user value, and also produces educational web-tech content and ships indie products through his firm VisualMode. His background includes senior engineering roles at LandscapeHub and Hashrocket, where he focused on high-quality front-end and back-end work and pragmatic product delivery. Josh is an active open-source contributor—he improved navigation and legacy-URL handling for the frontend of the popular egghead.io site—bringing attention to UX edge cases as well as robust redirect strategies. Outside code, he channels the same focus into playing pool and running, reflecting a balance of precision and endurance in his work.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
redirect10
tailwindcss9
mdx7
cypress6
jestjs6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
skillrecordings/egghead-next
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
The frontend for egghead.io.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:304 reviews, 280 commits, 174 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience of the egghead.io frontend, as indicated by the series of commits. They addressed legacy URL handling, implemented a custom 404 page with redirects, and moved redirect configurations to the `next.config.js` file, improving navigation and user experience. Furthermore, the user was actively engaged in adding new functionality and handling edge cases around the redirection of different resources across the site.
frontendeggheadnextjsmdxtypescript
jbranchaud/resources
Mar 2014 - May 2016
a collection of free, online resources for various technologies, languages, and tools
Contributions:506 commits, 81 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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