Josh Madewell
Senior Software Engineer at Discord
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Madewell is a senior full-stack software engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building developer-facing tools and scalable web systems. He has driven frontend and backend work at high-profile engineering teams including Discord, MongoDB, and Twitch, where he helped launch platform features like Extensions and Drops. At MongoDB he led the GraphQL design for Realm and contributed to MongoDB tooling such as fixing UI and query-parsing issues in the Mongotron project, demonstrating attention to both UX and data-layer correctness. Comfortable across Node.js, frontend frameworks, and database internals, he focuses on making complex developer workflows more productive and reliable. He also teaches full-stack development, reflecting a knack for translating deep technical concepts into practical learning. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers shipping usable tools over heroic architectures.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at Florida State University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (12)
query-parser10
javascript10
mongodb10
parse10
angularjs10
mongodb-database10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
unit-test9
uid9
autocomplete8
css8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
officert/mongotron
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Cross platform Mongo DB management
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to the Mongotron project by addressing UI and functionality issues. They fixed display issues in the list view, adjusted CSS for responsiveness, and improved autocomplete functionality for MongoDB queries. Additionally, the user implemented and tested methods for parsing and handling MongoDB ObjectIDs within queries and implemented improvements to the query parsing logic. Their commits suggest a focus on both the front-end interface and the back-end query processing.
electronmongomongoosejsmongodb-databasemongo-db
joshmadewell/portfolio
Jun 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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