Josh Chen
Co-Founder at Packagetrackr.com
Los Angeles, California, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Chen is a serial founder and technology leader with 11 years of hands-on experience building scalable e-commerce platforms and web applications across the U.S. and China. As Co-Founder of Fara Inc. and Guruin.com and CTO of Oscart Technology, he blends product-minded engineering with team-building and operational know-how for marketplace businesses. He has deep expertise in web performance, large-scale architecture, and full-stack development (HTML, JavaScript, .NET/C#, Python, T-SQL), and a proven track record optimizing both server- and client-side systems. Josh also contributes to open-source tooling, notably enhancing the sidekiq-cron gem to better support ActiveJob integrations and queue configuration. Based in Los Angeles with roots spanning Israel and China, he’s driven by building products that meaningfully improve users’ lives. Colleagues describe him as inquisitive, fast-learning, and self-motivated, able to bridge technical execution and business operations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Southwest China Normal University
Github Skills (11)
sidekiq10
rubygems10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails9
scheduler9
job-scheduler9
task-scheduler9
job-scheduling9
sched9
scheduled-tasks9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sidekiq-cron/sidekiq-cron
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Scheduler / Cron for Sidekiq jobs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh focused on enhancing the Sidekiq-Cron gem by adding support for ActiveJob configurations. They implemented features to allow ActiveJob configuration via strings and numbers, as well as the queue name prefix configuration. These changes included modifying the core logic for enqueuing jobs and adding unit tests to ensure the new features function correctly, improving the integration with ActiveJob and Sidekiq.
ruby-on-railsruby-gemsidekiq-workerscron-jobsrails
helioedge/activejob-unique
Apr 2018 - Nov 2020
Add uniqueness support for Active Job
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
mauticrailsrubyjobuniqueness
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