Josh Robinson
CTO & Chief Technology Architect at BLDX.io
Newton, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Robinson is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years of experience building scalable web and data systems from startups to enterprise. Based in Newton, Iowa, he blends hands-on engineering (notably Ruby/Rails back-end work and cryptographic data layers) with strategic architecture—leading teams at BLDX.io, founding consultancies like Bproto Labs, and co-founding ventures such as YouBase and BitBoss. He specializes in aligning technical solutions with business goals, applying agile practices, and mentoring engineers while shipping secure, production-grade platforms for healthcare, building intelligence, and telephony. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved widely used Ruby country-data tooling by adding ISO subdivision support and hardening data loading, reflecting an attention to standards and data integrity. Colleagues know him as a code craftsman and cryptographer who favors pragmatic, well-tested solutions that scale beyond prototype.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, CIS - Programming, AAS, CIS - Programming at Hamilton College
Github Skills (5)
testing10
ruby10
yaml9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
countries/countries
Dec 2009 - Aug 2017
All sorts of useful information about every country packaged as convenient little country objects. It includes data from ISO 3166 (countries and states/subdivisions ), ISO 4217 (currency), and E.164 (phone numbers).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 175 commits, 5 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of a Ruby-based library for handling country data. They started by adding data and testing. The user then implemented features like the addition of ISO3166-2 (states/subdivision) information, and they attempted to integrate a country select helper. They also addressed relative path issues and fixed constant names, demonstrating a focus on improving the data loading and overall library structure.
phone-numberscjscountry-flagsrubycurrency
YouBase/youbase
Aug 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:76 commits, 30 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 6 months
cryptographyindividualcryptographicdata-storeencryption
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