Josh Goldberg
Senior Frontend Developer at Sentry
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Goldberg is a Senior Frontend Developer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing tooling and delightful web UIs, currently contributing at Sentry and co-organizing SquiggleConf. He’s a prolific open-source maintainer—helping steer projects like typescript-eslint, DefinitelyTyped, and the TypeScript website—and is a Microsoft MVP known for deep TypeScript expertise. Josh spans full-stack work from compiler and framework improvements (TypeScript, Astro) to front-end UX and accessibility, and he routinely modernizes tooling and CI for large projects. His background includes significant front-end platform roles at Codecademy and multiple engineering positions at Microsoft, and he’s the author of LearningTypeScript and creator of tooling like TypeStat. Colleagues appreciate that alongside rigorous engineering he brings a playful streak and a penchant for surprising integrations—so working with him is as productive as it is memorable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteShaker High School
English
Stackoverflow
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112answers
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typescript
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Github Skills (109)
compiler-development10
testing10
object-model10
test-framework10
typescript-definitions10
templater10
type-definition10
render10
type-system10
jtest10
linter10
build-process10
javascript10
type-check10
mstest10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
typescript-eslint/tslint-to-eslint-config
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Converts your TSLint configuration to the closest possible ESLint equivalent. 🚀
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 releases, 108 reviews, 62 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the project by refactoring and updating the codebase, specifically related to TypeScript and ESLint configuration. They addressed issues by adding new codelyzer converters, incorporating Prettier fixups, and modernizing testing configurations with SWC. Additionally, they converted the project to ECMAScript Modules (ESM). The user's changes aimed to improve the project's maintainability, code quality, and build processes.
eslinttslintconfigconversiondeprecation
JoshuaKGoldberg/create-typescript-app
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Quickstart-friendly TypeScript template with comprehensive, configurable, opinionated tooling. 🎁
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:334 releases, 502 reviews, 160 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the project's build and configuration, demonstrating DevOps and front-end skills. They implemented and refined the setup script, managed ESLint configurations, and integrated testing coverage tools. Moreover, they adjusted project dependencies, formatted and modified the README, and made structural modifications to the project's configuration to improve the overall development experience.
typescripteslintnodetemplatejavascript
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