Josh Kitchens
Application Architect
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJosh Kitchens is an application architect with 12 years of engineering and solution-design experience, currently shaping frameworks, libraries, and standards at Hagerty Insurance. He has led API and backend efforts at Domino’s and Barracuda, building scalable .NET Core microservice architectures and mentoring teams in SOLID principles and modern best practices. His background spans connected-vehicle systems and proof-of-concept mobile work at Ford, plus enterprise and government projects, giving him a strong blend of business analysis and hands-on development. Comfortable across C#, Java, Python, and Azure PaaS, he delivers maintainable, testable systems and operational tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm). He also publishes .NET Core training material on GitHub, reflecting a focus on developer enablement as well as architecture.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (110)
asp-net-core10
asp-net10
resolver10
dotnet10
pylint10
dataloader10
strawberryshake10
graphql-dotnet10
ide10
intellisense10
facebook10
hotchocolate10
dotnet-core10
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
BlacKCaT27/CurrencyEditText
Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
A module designed to encapsulate the use of an Android EditText field for gathering currency information from a user. Supports all ISO-3166 compliant locales/currencies.
Contributions:11 releases, 40 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 9 months
android
BlacKCaT27/ToStringGenerator
May 2025 - May 2025
A source generation-based solution for automatically implementing a readable `ToString` method on your POCOs.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 17 days
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