Josh Illian
Engineering Manager at Dealer Inspire
Waco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Illian is a people-first engineering manager based in Waco, Texas, with 11 years of software industry experience and a 27-year track record of building teams and systems. He currently leads development of inventory systems at Dealer Inspire after a hands-on tenure as a full-stack Elixir/Phoenix engineer at Cars.com where he designed API-layer services and automated key ETL and notification workflows. His background spans startups and large enterprises, including building an EMR for ophthalmology and technical leadership roles at AT&T, and earlier service as a U.S. Army Armor Officer—bringing operational discipline to engineering management. Josh blends practical backend expertise (Ruby, Elixir, AWS) with CI/CD and automation experience, and is known for turning manual processes into reliable, scalable services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Foreign Area Study, Middle East, Bachelor of Science (BS), Foreign Area Study, Middle East at United States Military Academy at West PointDenver High SchoolMS, Computer Science, Information Security, (Incomplete), MS, Computer Science, Information Security, (Incomplete) at James Madison University
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (27)
factory10
seed10
testing10
faker10
seeding10
elixir9
generator9
dummy-data9
database9
developer-tools9
activerecord6
css-position6
hash6
ruby-on-rails6
activeadmin6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carsdotcom/mIMDB
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Auto team project for collaboratively learning Elixir
Contributions:3 reviews, 41 commits, 19 PRs in 25 days
learning-elixirteam-projectelixir
joshillian/faker
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Faker is a pure Elixir library for generating fake data.
Contributions:14 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
elixir-libraryfactorydummy-dataelixirfaker
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