Josh Greenwood
Director Of Engineering at Forward Financing
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Greenwood is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building and scaling product-focused teams across fintech and insurtech. He leads with empathy and high-trust autonomy, prioritizing high-leverage work—whether mentoring new hires, presenting strategy to large audiences, or triaging production incidents. Skilled as a former full-stack Ruby on Rails engineer and staff-level technologist, he combines first-principles thinking with a bias for speed and production-quality at scale. His background spans hands-on engineering, consulting, and leadership roles at companies like Bold Penguin and Forward Financing, giving him fluency across technical and business domains. Colocated in Cincinnati, he consistently optimizes for outcomes that drive measurable business growth while refusing to accept the status quo. An operator who still dives into the trenches, he balances strategic vision with daily execution to unlock exponential team impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering/Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering/Computer Science at University of Louisville
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Github Skills (162)
ruby10
vim10
spacemacs10
melpa10
solr10
emacs-lsp10
emacs10
rails10
sunspot10
cytoscapejs10
spacevim9
theory9
javascript9
elm9
geocoding9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JoshTGreenwood/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - May 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
flyingmachine/make-a-clojure-baby
Dec 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 8 months
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