Josh Nelson
Software Engineer at Planning Center
Port Orchard, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Nelson is a software engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack web applications and real-time multiplayer systems. He co-created Plinko.js, an open-source browser-based multiplayer physics game that demonstrates expertise in client-server synchronization, binary serialization, and latency mitigation using JavaScript, WebSockets, Node.js, React, and HTML5 Canvas. Currently at Planning Center, he brings practical production experience from startups and consulting work, including Rails APIs and React frontends for productivity and content-sharing apps. His background in marketing and operations informs a pragmatic approach to product-driven engineering—he has saved departments money and streamlined processes through software. Based in Port Orchard, WA, Josh is comfortable owning both server and client concerns to deliver seamless, low-latency user experiences. He often gravitates toward projects that push browser-native capabilities without plugins, reflecting a bias for elegant, interoperable web solutions.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Marketing and Management Leadership, Bachelor of Science (BS), Marketing and Management Leadership at Portland State University - School of Business
English
Github Skills (19)
usergroup9
matter-js9
socket8
networked8
nodejs7
socket-io6
javascript6
planning4
todomvc3
react-redux3
redux2
ruby2
redux-thunk2
rails2
trello2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JoshCNelson/data_structures_and_algorithms
Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
JoshCNelson/joshcdnelson
Jun 2020 - Oct 2020
Personal Website
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
react
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