Summary
Josh Habdas is a Principal-level web engineer and digital nomad based in Phuket with a 17-year track record of modernizing front-end ecosystems and delivering production-grade web and microservice systems. He blends deep front-end craft—SvelteKit, Node, React—with backend and operational experience in GCP, Micronaut, containers and automated testing, having modernized multi-app Turborepos and operationalized Playwright suites via GitHub Actions. Josh has shipped accessible, CMS-driven e-commerce and web3 user interfaces (including a Hedera-based carbon exchange MVP) and routinely drives security, SEO and WCAG compliance into products. An open-source-minded technologist and Stack Overflow moderator, he pairs hands-on implementation with process and tooling improvements that make teams repeatable and auditable. Notably, he’s turned enterprise front-end frameworks into lightweight, containerized runtimes and continues to freelance and build from globally distributed locations.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Illinois State University