Josh Brown
Technical Lead at Six Feet Up, Inc.
Fishers, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Brown is a technical lead and founder with 15 years of experience building and guiding mobile and software teams for startups and Fortune 500 clients. He combines hands-on engineering—shipping stable, zero-crash production apps—with people-first leadership that boosts developer happiness, productivity, and collaboration. As founder of Roadfire Software and recent mobile engineering manager at Verse, he has repeatedly cut build times, saved thousands of developer hours, and launched decentralized social apps on the App Store. Josh is an active open-source contributor and test automation engineer with focused work improving Foundation tests in the Swift corelibs project, underscoring his attention to reliability at the platform level. He’s targeting roles in AI research and safety where his product, process, and people skills can scale impact for mission-driven nonprofits. Outside work he’s an avid runner, hiker, and reader who balances technical depth with practical team stewardship.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Miami University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
foundation10
testing10
java10
hashmap10
xctest10
hashtable10
collections10
swift10
nsarray10
ios9
iphone9
xcode9
jenkins9
uikit6
static-linking6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Josh's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying tests within the `swift-corelibs-foundation` repository. They implemented new test cases for `NSArray` and `NSMutableArray`, including tests for specific methods like `replaceObjectsInRange`. The contributions demonstrate a focus on comprehensive testing of core Foundation functionalities, ensuring code correctness.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
roadfire/NiceThings
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
A collection of extensions and methods to make Swift and iOS even better
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
iosswift
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