Josh Pollock
Senior Software Engineer at RVO Health
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Pollock is a senior software engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining high-traffic PHP and JavaScript systems, currently focused on CMS and editorial workflows at RVO Health for sites like Healthline and MedicalNewsToday. He combines deep WordPress expertise—contributing to notable projects such as the Pods Framework and WP REST API—with full-stack engineering across Laravel, React, Go, TypeScript, and AWS. As a former lead at agencies and startups (10up, CalderaWP, Saturday Drive), he’s comfortable both leading teams and shipping hands-on improvements that strengthen developer experience and product reliability. His open source work emphasizes maintainability and DX, from REST API integrations to enhanced admin UI and documentation. Josh also brings a practical entrepreneurial perspective from running a consultancy and co-owning a plugin business, giving him experience across product, support, and engineering. Unusually for an engineer, his background includes audio engineering and environmental studies, reflecting a wide-ranging curiosity that informs creative problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Environmental Studies, BA, Environmental Studies at New School UniversityAS, Recording Engineering, AS, Recording Engineering at Full Sail UniversityMA, Environmental Studies, MA, Environmental Studies at Goddard CollegeNone, English, None, English at University of Pittsburgh
English, php, javascript
Github Skills (15)
wordpress10
rest-api10
php10
custom-fields10
api10
content-type10
apidoc10
ecommerce10
documentation10
wordpress-plugin10
ed2551910
formatting8
database-design8
text-formatting8
javascript7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pods-framework/pods
Oct 2013 - May 2016
The Pods Framework is a Content Development Framework for WordPress - It lets you create and extend content types that can be used for any project. Add fields of various types we've built in, or add your own with custom inputs, you have total control.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 292 commits, 80 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed to the Pods Framework by implementing features and fixing bugs related to form handling, REST API integration, and template functionality. The user made several enhancements to the admin interface including improvements to help text, editor options, and widget instructions. Several commits focused on bug fixes and enhancements to the core functionality of the framework. The user also made adjustments to the auto template and styling of the framework.
custom-fieldstotalpjaxcontent-typeswordpress
WP-API/WP-API
Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
The WP REST API has been merged into WordPress core. Please do not create issues or send pull requests. Submit support requests to the forums or patches to Trac (see README below for links).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 13 PRs, 1 push in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the documentation and code style of the WP REST API project. Their work included adding inline documentation, fixing typos in existing documentation, and improving the clarity of the `@return` annotations. They also made minor adjustments to improve code readability and formatting, such as making inline docs one line long and adding missing docs to constants. The changes indicate a focus on code maintainability and developer experience.
mergedapiwordpress-apiwp-rest-apiwordpress
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