Josh Chisholm
Principal Engineer at Forbes Advisor
London, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorJosh Chisholm is a Principal Engineer based in London with 17 years of hands-on experience building software and helping teams deliver more effectively. He combines leadership roles at startups and consultancies with product-facing engineering, having led Featurist for over a decade and recently served as a freelance developer before joining Forbes Advisor. Technically comfortable across the full stack, Josh contributes to open-source tooling for .NET browser automation (notably improvements to the Coypu project) and focuses on pragmatic improvements to testability and developer velocity. He’s as likely to refactor test suites for faster feedback as he is to ship features, bringing a practical engineering mindset that reduces friction across teams. Colleagues rely on him for both architectural guidance and everyday delivery coaching, making him a force multiplier for engineering organizations.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
nunit10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
browser-automation10
testing10
html9
regular-expression8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
featurist/coypu
Oct 2013 - Jun 2014
Intuitive, robust browser automation for .Net
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the Coypu project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to browser automation for .Net. They added functionality for getting the inner and outer HTML of elements, improving the test suite by upgrading NUnit, and adding regular expression matching capabilities. They also refactored code to include SelfishHttp for faster testing. The contributions also span across multiple files and technologies, demonstrating a full-stack approach.
dotnetbrowserweb-automationpageobjectphantomjs
bbc/bbc-a11y
Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
BBC Accessibility Guidelines Checker
Contributions:318 commits, 138 PRs, 276 pushes in 2 years 8 months
checkera11ybbcguidelinesaxe
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