Josh Rowley
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Rowley is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable, full-stack systems and scalable infrastructure from Jersey City. Currently at GitHub, he brings hands-on expertise from roles spanning site reliability at Betterment to senior engineering positions at WeWork and Flatiron School. He contributes to open-source tooling—most notably enhancements to the roots front-end toolkit—where he’s solved practical problems like path helpers, EMFILE handling, and worker compatibility via a CLI toggle. Comfortable across the stack, Josh combines production-grade reliability work with front-end developer ergonomics, making him effective at bridging developer experience and operational resilience. His academic background mixes software engineering training with a multidisciplinary BA in French, Environmental Studies, and Mathematics, reflecting a curious, systems-oriented thinker. Peers describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who surfaces small, high-leverage fixes that prevent recurring production pain.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, French, Environmental Studies, Mathematics, BA, French, Environmental Studies, Mathematics at New York UniversitySoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
French
Stackoverflow
26reputation
428reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
coffeescript10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
testing9
command-line-interface9
uitest9
command-line9
api-testing9
cli9
configuration-management8
fileio8
file-operations8
filesystem8
soundcloud6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jescalan/roots
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
a toolkit for rapid advanced front-end development
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh made several contributions to the Roots project, a toolkit for front-end development. They added a URL path helper to view locals, enabling easier referencing of file paths within views. They also fixed a bug related to the handling of file paths and implemented a CLI option to disable workers, addressing compatibility issues with dynamic content. Furthermore, they addressed EMFILE errors by raising the maximum number of open file descriptors.
front-end-development
joshrowley/alexamartinez.com
May 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 8 months
reactjsjavascriptreactalexa
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