Josh Morel is a health data analyst and full-stack technologist with 11 years of experience blending clinical analytics and web engineering. Based in Old Toronto, he’s delivered BI and decision-support solutions in hospital settings while also building Node.js back-ends, Vue front-ends and PHP/Laravel sites as a contractor. Josh contributes to open-source projects—notably backend work on the federated video platform PeerTube where he improved user authentication and email verification—and volunteers on public-health tech with FightPandemics. Comfortable administering Linux and cloud infrastructure, he bridges data warehousing, DevOps and application development to turn complex healthcare data into actionable insights. An avid listener of history podcasts, he brings curiosity and long-term perspective to technical problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, General at McMaster University
Post-grad Certificate, Health Informatics, Post-grad Certificate, Health Informatics at Conestoga College
ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:16 commits, 15 PRs, 39 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed significantly to the back-end functionality of the PeerTube platform, with a focus on user authentication and email verification features. They implemented code for password reset functionality and added robust email verification, including server-side and client-side components. Further, the user's work included refactoring and improvements to the user management API, along with the integration of admin tools for email verification.
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