Josh Minzner
Staff Software Engineer at Formation Bio
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJosh Minzner is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of full-stack JavaScript experience, currently leading engineering efforts at Formation Bio. He focuses on test-driven development and functional programming to deliver reliable, maintainable systems across front-end and back-end stacks. Josh has a history of building production React/Redux front ends and Node.js services, and contributed notable testing utilities to the widely used Enzyme React testing library, adapting it for multiple React versions. He mentors engineers, drives engineering best practices, and quickly adopts new technologies—skills honed since early roles building front-ends and integrations at Reelcontent. Outside engineering, he’s a curious learner with an unexpected talent for making excellent eggplant parmesan.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Music Teacher Education, Music Teacher Education at Kean University
English
Stackoverflow
560reputation
36kreached
4answers
6questions
Github Skills (17)
assertion10
javascript10
react-components10
testing10
react-component10
assert10
enzyme10
react10
test-runner9
test-automation9
mochajs6
firefox6
landscape6
jsdom6
youtube6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
enzymejs/enzyme
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
JavaScript Testing utilities for React
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 97 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the development of the enzyme library, specifically focusing on React components and testing utilities. Their work included adding new functionalities such as `isCustomComponent` and `wrapWithWrappingComponent` to the core utility files. They also updated and expanded adapter-specific features for various React versions, demonstrating proficiency in adapting the library to different React versions and supporting modern React features like createContext.
waitavajesttest-runnerreact-components
trialspark/sqlalchemy-continuum
Nov 2016 - Apr 2022
Versioning extension for SQLAlchemy.
Contributions:1 review, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 5 years 5 months
versioningpythonsqlalchemy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.