Josh Jung
Owner And Senior Full-Stack Engineer (Consulting) at Guidestar Digital
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Jung is an owner and senior full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building high-accuracy dashboards and complex RIAs for medical, military, telephony, and airport systems. He combines low-level audio/AI research (including SVM-based audio classification) with practical web architecture skills across C/C++, Java, Node.js, Ruby, PHP and modern front-end frameworks. As founder of Guidestar Digital in Austin, he consults for clients like NuvoAir, DFW Airport and Boston Consulting Group, often delivering data-heavy GUIs with custom charts, grids and maps. At Spotify he helped implement the original Backstage plugins and contributed search enhancements to the Backstage open-source ecosystem, showing a continued commitment to developer tooling. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end, he pairs engineering depth with business-process thinking to turn research and regulatory constraints into production systems. He's equally at home prototyping AI algorithms and shipping polished web products.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CS, Mathematics, Computer Science, CS, Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Illinois at ChicagoAS, Mathematics, AS, Mathematics at Butler County Community College
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
typescript10
backstage10
typescript-types10
portal10
typescripts10
react10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
mongodb6
scalability6
rabbitmq6
nodejs6
angularjs6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Feb 2022 - Nov 2024
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 14 PRs, 73 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh focused on enhancing the search functionality of the Backstage developer portal. Their work included adding customization options for search result item renderers within the SidebarSearchModal component. They also updated documentation to reflect these changes and addressed suggestions made in a pull request. Furthermore, the user fixed typing issues and made related adjustments to ensure proper functionality.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
joshjung/hash-array
Aug 2014 - Jan 2022
A data structure that combines a hash and an array for automated indexing. All the benefits of an indexed HashMap and an Array in one neat tidy, tested package. Complex keys with multiple depths can be used!
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 6 months
phasharrayindexedhashindexing
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