Summary
Josh Leichtung is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling application teams, currently serving as Senior Director of Application Engineering at Hinge Health in San Francisco. He is passionate about clean, well-tested code and best practices, and focuses on making teams highly productive through mentorship, pragmatic architecture, and elegant solutions to complex problems. Josh progressed through technical and leadership roles at Hinge Health—from Staff Engineer to senior director—driving delivery for a fast-growing digital health platform validated by peer-reviewed research. His background includes hands-on freelance development across Rails, React, Node, and PHP, plus mentoring at Dev Bootcamp, which gives him a rare blend of individual contributor craftsmanship and people leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate product goals into maintainable systems while cultivating a strong engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
English, French, Spanish