Josh Ferge
Staff Software Engineer at Sentry
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Ferge is a Staff Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and developer tools, currently leading replay-related features at Sentry. He combines backend API and model design with front-end documentation and SDK work—contributing to Sentry’s popular sentry-javascript SDK, docs, and core backend to improve session replay, compression, and replay stream ordering. Prior roles span startups and scale-ups where he led product-focused engineering (including a custom-fit apparel platform and early growth at Augur) and shipped mobile and web products that reached significant user scale. Comfortable across Node.js, backend services, and frontend UX, he has a track record of turning ambiguous problems into production-ready systems and automations. An early founder and frequent open-source contributor, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a product-minded instinct for observability and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
English
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Github Skills (41)
javascript10
sentry10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
django10
typescript10
browser10
api10
sdk10
error-log10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
replay10
react10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3436 reviews, 277 commits, 1344 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Sentry project, specifically focusing on adding and modifying features related to session replays. Their work included implementing new endpoints, adding proxy logic, and enhancing the existing API for retrieving and displaying replay data. Key tasks also involved the creation of new models for replay recording segments and integrating them within the existing code base.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
getsentry/sentry-docs
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 24 commits, 56 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the API documentation within the Sentry documentation repository. They added support for displaying examples within API documentation, including schema enums, and updated related components. Their contributions extended to fixing styling issues within the API sidebar and adding a language attribute to the site configuration. This work improved the clarity and functionality of the API documentation.
gatsbysentry-documentationgatsbyjssentrytag-production
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