Josh Furlin
Frontend Engineer at Chess.com
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Furlin is a Frontend Engineer based in Chicago with seven years building polished, user-focused web applications and components. Currently at Chess.com after contributing to Prefect’s component library, he brings a mix of hands-on Vue.js/Tailwind and React/TypeScript experience across both product and client-facing projects. He excels at translating complex requirements into accessible, responsive interfaces and has a track record of shipping features ahead of schedule while raising code quality through thoughtful reviews. Comfortable working with back-end technologies like Node and GraphQL, he blends full-stack fluency with a strong eye for UX and accessibility. A former educator and tutor, Josh pairs technical depth with clear communication, making him effective at aligning cross-functional teams and mentoring others. He often surfaces subtle usability and maintainability improvements that reduce long-term development friction.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media
Github Skills (13)
automation10
infrastructure10
orchestration10
observability10
dataflow10
prefect10
python10
data-science10
pipeline10
data-engineering9
vue9
workflow-engine9
typescript8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
space-age-pete/omp-2
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 issue in 5 months
samholtz/Project-Two
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:19 PRs, 15 pushes, 17 branches in 4 days
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