Josh Calder
Engineering Team Lead at Neighbourhood Collective Australia
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Calder is an engineering team lead with 11 years of experience who blends practical full‑stack development (TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, React) with business strategy from an MBA to deliver products that help organisations grow. Currently leading Culture Amp’s Goals engineering team, he focuses on thoughtful architecture, developer productivity, and shipping features that keep teams connected to the "why." His background spans startups, enterprise, consultancy and open source—contributing UI and backend improvements to the well-known KeystoneJS headless CMS, including accessibility fixes and MySQL support. As a founder and operator (OpenSaasAU) and a nonprofit board secretary/COO, he routinely pairs lean product thinking with cloud infrastructure and compliance experience. He’s curious about practical AI adoption for developer and product workflows, but champions simplicity and human-centred design over flashy tech for its own sake.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at RMIT UniversityBachelor, Information Technology, Bachelor, Information Technology at Charles Sturt UniversityTAE, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching, TAE, Adult and Continuing Education and Teaching at Fortress learningGraduate Certificate of Technology (Business Systems Design and Management), Management Information Systems, General, Graduate Certificate of Technology (Business Systems Design and Management), Management Information Systems, General at Swinburne University of TechnologyCCNA, CCNA at Cisco Career Certifications
English
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
react10
wpgraphql9
wordpress-graphql9
cms9
nodejs9
graphql9
mysql8
nextjs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
keystonejs/keystone
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
The superpowered headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 94 commits, 124 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh made several contributions focused on improving the user interface and fixing bugs in the KeystoneJS project. This includes fixing spelling errors, improving the accessibility of the UI, and updating dependencies, such as upgrading the `react-day-picker` library. Additionally, the user worked on expanding the features by adding support for MySQL database. Their work demonstrates a proficiency in both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
cmscms-frameworkreactnode-jsnodejs
borisno2/on-the-hill-drama-club
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
Demo Student enrolment and management project
Contributions:203 commits, 687 PRs, 945 pushes in 4 months
spring-bootjavaproject-management
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