Josh Katofsky
Fullstack Software Developer at Transit
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolJosh Katofsky is a fullstack software developer with nine years of hands-on experience building web platforms and tooling, currently shipping features at Transit after three years at Coveo. A McGill CS graduate with minors in Political Science and Philosophy, he combines strong technical chops across React/Next.js, backend APIs, and data tooling with proven product impact—halving time-to-interactive and boosting SEO for a major student society site. He’s led teams and operations as VP Helpdesk for McGill CS, hiring and managing 50 tutors and scaling services to 1,000+ students, and he brings an interdisciplinary perspective informed by policy and ethics. Comfortable across the stack, Josh has delivered production features at startups and civic platforms and has practical experience in AI-adjacent projects and data normalization pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Arlington High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Major in Computer Science, Minors in Political Science and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Major in Computer Science, Minors in Political Science and Philosophy at McGill University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (93)
react-component9
social-media9
backend9
intellisense9
python-extension9
netlify9
pylint9
portal9
django8
api8
pinterest8
webapp8
twitter8
rest-api8
react-static8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jkatofsky/mcgill-effective-altruism
Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
Doing good better. The website for the McGill chapter of the effective altruism movement.
Contributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 6 months
altruismreactcssjavascripteffective
jkatofsky/rnn-your-friends
Jul 2020 - Feb 2021
A React/Material-UI app that processes users' local iMessage DBs and interacts with my text generation API to train and query a language model on their friends' messages.
Contributions:54 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
queryapireactdbslanguage-model
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