Josh Larson
Senior Staff Engineer at Barkpass
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Larson is a Senior Staff Engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and developer tools. Currently co-founding Barkpass, he combines product instincts for small-business SaaS with prior leadership at Shopify where he helped design Hydrogen, Oxygen, and the Storefronts platform powering millions of merchants. He blends full-stack craftsmanship—contributing to Shopify CLI auth flows, frontend Hydrogen components, and edge-rendered frameworks—with systems thinking around performance, caching, and large-scale schema migrations. Comfortable shipping both developer tooling and customer-facing UIs, he’s led teams through major rewrites and platform launches while improving developer ergonomics. Based in Des Moines, he keeps a playful, collaborative culture (and occasionally bakes donuts), bringing an operator’s pragmatism to open-source and startup work.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BA, Journalism & Mass Communications, Spanish, BS, BA, Journalism & Mass Communications, Spanish at Iowa State UniversityWebster City High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
apidoc10
react-ssr10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cloudflare-workers10
identity-management10
shopify-hydrogen10
shopify-cli10
ruby10
remix10
api10
front-end-development10
react10
url-routing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
flareact/flareact
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Edge-rendered React framework built for Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 253 commits, 94 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Josh implemented initial Rollup builds for the project, contributing to the build process. They made modifications to several files, including the worker index, router, and client index, reflecting work on a full-stack React framework. This involved changes to the core routing and client-side hydration logic. They also fixed a circular dependency issue, and addressed rollup-related issues, suggesting a focus on build and deployment.
cloudflare-workersreact-frameworkreactssr
Shopify/hydrogen-v1
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
React-based framework for building dynamic, Shopify-powered custom storefronts.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 394 reviews, 316 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on front-end development within the Hydrogen framework, making various improvements to custom storefronts. Their contributions involved fixing cache-related console logs and minor template issues, including correcting SVG props and footer links. They also worked on integrating client components, specifically ensuring the correct re-export of the `Link` component and modifying product and money components.
reactshopify
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