Josh Elias
Senior Backend Engineer at Ground News
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Elias is a senior backend engineer and startup founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable web and native applications from Ottawa. He’s led technical teams as CTO and VP of Technology, co-founded and scaled an automotive startup to $5M+ in revenue, and now focuses on backend systems at Ground News. Josh combines a web-focused engineering approach with full-stack fluency—shipping microservices, custom CRMs, and cloud-hosted SPAs using Go, Postgres, React/Angular/Blazor and modern cloud platforms. He mentors teams, runs developer processes, and has a background in game development and music technology that informs a creative, systems-oriented perspective. Ambitious about the digital nomad lifestyle, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with an appetite for travel and continuous learning.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeN/A Music Theory and Composition, N/A Music Theory and Composition at Carleton University
Github Skills (181)
reload10
gatsby10
mfe10
graphql10
react10
editor9
wayland9
compiler9
daisyui9
xcb9
starter-kit9
firebase9
tiling9
protractor9
webpack9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
daemontechtools/SmartOrder
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:11 reviews, 19 PRs, 202 pushes in 11 months
daemontechtools/daemon-obsidian-vault
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:289 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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