Josh Emerson
Engineering Manager at Enode
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Emerson is an engineering manager and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams across security, healthcare, and energy sectors. Currently leading the Experience team at Enode, he blends technical leadership with a person-centered, non-judgemental management style that has helped many engineers transition into senior and managerial roles. Previously at Snyk he drove growth through A/B testing and SEO improvements while contributing directly to the Snyk CLI’s security features and auth flows, showing he remains hands-on with security engineering. He has led cross-functional delivery at Oliva, steering mobile releases, ISO 27001 efforts, and AI-driven session summarisation, and he coaches careers through his founder practice. Trained in counselling as well as architecture and electrical installation, he brings uncommon empathy and systems thinking to engineering leadership.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 certificate in counselling studies Counseling Psychology, Level 3 certificate in counselling studies Counseling Psychology at Counselling & Psychotherapy Training AcademyElectrical Installation - Level 2 Diploma Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical Installation - Level 2 Diploma Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (CONEL)Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) Architecture at University of Brighton
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
apim10
user-authentication10
authentication10
vulnerability-management10
api10
security10
javascript9
nodejs9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Jul 2016 - Nov 2019
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:78 commits, 13 PRs, 46 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the security aspects of the Snyk CLI. Their contributions include adding messages related to authentication, implementing authorization checks, and modifying the `snyk test` command to require authentication. They also worked on integrating API-driven alerts and ensuring the correct handling of policies to identify and address vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they improved the patching functionality and fixed issues related to applying patches.
monitorssarifmonitorsecurity-toolsvulnerabilities
joshje/gulp-compile-handlebars
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
Compile templates from Handlebars files
Contributions:7 PRs, 18 pushes, 19 branches in 5 years 1 month
templategulp-pluginmustachecompilehandlebars
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