Josh Klina
Co-Owner at MAP Policy Partners
Shamokin, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Klina is a pragmatic web technologist and co-owner with 13 years of experience building e-commerce platforms, APIs, and operational tooling across startups and established businesses. He combines hands-on Ruby on Rails backend work, REST and GraphQL API design, and front-end contributions—highlighted by enhancements to the Primer Design System—to deliver reliable, maintainable software. Josh favors fiscally conservative, customer-focused growth and a “white glove” approach to service, pairing test-driven development with aggressive codebase pruning to keep systems flexible. He’s launched and scaled revenue-driving e-commerce and automation projects that cut labor hours and boosted conversions, and has co-founded both a nonprofit and a consulting practice. Based in Shamokin, PA, he brings entrepreneurial instinct and cross-functional collaboration to solve product and operational challenges practically and sustainably.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor's degree, Business Administration and Management, General at Franklin & Marshall College
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Github Skills (19)
ruby-rails10
rails10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
ruby10
viewcomponent10
css9
ruby-on-rails9
routes9
html9
rubocop8
testing8
activerecord6
factory-bot6
graph6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
primer/view_components
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
ViewComponents for the Primer Design System
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 5 commits, 16 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on implementing and enhancing view components for the Primer Design System. They introduced a new layout component, promoting it from experimental to alpha status, including associated code changes. Furthermore, the user added support for responsive borders, extending the existing Primer CSS functionalities. Additionally, they implemented a linter to track deprecated layout component callsites, improving code quality and maintainability.
primerrailsviewcomponentsprimer-designruby
Hyper-Kitten/human-urls
Nov 2015 - Mar 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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