Josh Burks
Sr. Software Developer at Textbook Technology
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Burks is a senior software developer with over a decade of experience building web applications and backend systems from Little Rock, Arkansas. He specializes in Ruby on Rails (Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus), Vue.js, AWS, and relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL), and practices TDD and Agile workflows. At Textbook Technology he leads development efforts while contributing to open-source tooling—improving fuzzy search in the popular textacular gem by refining ILIKE-based searches and adding robust tests. His background includes progressive engineering and supervisory roles across analytics and benefits companies, giving him strengths in both hands-on coding and team leadership. Comfortable with Linux, web servers, and automation scripts, he is interested in senior engineering, lead developer, or technical leadership roles such as CTO. A practical problem-solver, he pairs pragmatic production experience with a willingness to dive into low-level search logic and testing to improve reliability.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Henderson State University
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Github Skills (8)
activerecord10
fuzzy-search10
postgresql10
ruby10
rspec9
regular-expression8
asp-net-mvc6
formsubmit6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
textacular/textacular
Nov 2017 - Aug 2020
Textacular exposes full text search capabilities from PostgreSQL, and allows you to declare full text indexes. Textacular will extend ActiveRecord with named_scope methods making searching easy and fun!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to improving the fuzzy search functionality within the `textacular` gem, a library for full-text search in PostgreSQL. They addressed issues by adding tests and modifying the search logic. The user updated the code to utilize ILIKE for fuzzy searches and incorporated regex to correctly insert wildcard characters. Further enhancements involved merging code from other branches, and updating the gem version.
declarefull-text-searchindexesrailsfull-text
dotnofoolin/hac_adapter
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
HAC Adapter scrapes grades from the interface your school provides (Home Access Center / eSchool) and returns them in a programmatically usable format.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
centerreturnsgradesadapterscrapes
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