Josh Levinson
Staff Software Engineer at LinkSquares
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Levinson is a Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years building scalable Ruby on Rails applications and leading technical teams from New Haven, CT. He has driven product work that generated multimillion-dollar revenue, designed critical API and audit systems, and improved integrations with platforms like DocuSign and OnlyOffice. A hands-on engineer who rose from IT and network roles, he modernizes legacy stacks and champions test coverage, documentation, and automation to boost reliability and developer productivity. Josh mentors engineers and formalizes hiring processes—conducting dozens of interviews and directly contributing to strategic hires—earning a Coaches Award for cultural impact. He also invests in the local tech community as President of NewHaven.IO, blending technical leadership with grassroots community building. Practical, results-oriented, and curious, he often pairs systems-level thinking with day-to-day coding to move projects from prototype to production.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (52)
haven9
rails8
ruby8
mvc7
ruby-on-rails7
activerecord7
html7
react6
gatsby5
chat-application5
testing5
spire5
utility-mod5
marc5
minecraft4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
josh-levinson/Chess
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 1 year 5 months
josh-levinson/spotify-genre-explorer
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:37 pushes, 5 branches in 10 months
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