Josh Duck
Head Of Engineering, Clipchamp at Microsoft
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJosh Duck is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building frontend-first teams and products, currently Head of Engineering for Clipchamp within Microsoft. He combines hands-on expertise—having contributed bug fixes and IME/selection improvements to the flagship React library—with a track record of shipping high-profile consumer features at Facebook like Timeline and Graph Search. Josh has led the open sourcing of core GraphQL/Relay tooling, modernised large newsroom stacks at the ABC, and scaled teams through acquisition and integration. Based in Brisbane, he’s known for translating complex frontend infrastructure into delightful user experiences and for mentoring engineering managers to drive sustained delivery and quality.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Multimedia, IT, Bachelor of Multimedia, IT at Griffith University
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
frontend10
ui-design10
react10
standard-library9
declarative9
c-library9
common-library9
dom-manipulation9
html8
css7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 7 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to the React library, focusing on improving the component's behavior and functionality. They fixed bugs related to input selection in various browsers, including IE8 and IE11. The user implemented composition events to enhance IME support and added a new DOM-based selection module. They also added and fixed features related to selection events and improved React's performance.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
joshduck/PixelStir
Mar 2013 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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