Josh Ruff
CTO And Co-Founder at Ember Digital LLC
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Ruff is a pragmatic technology leader and entrepreneur with eight years of hands-on software and cloud experience, currently serving as CTO and Co-Founder of Ember Digital while also leading delivery at Sardius Media. He has progressed from full-stack engineer to VP of Software Engineering, building and mentoring teams, running internship programs, and founding a mentoring startup to help newcomers break into development. Technically comfortable across React, Node, and AWS serverless, he contributes to notable open-source projects such as the official fullcalendar-react component where he added rrule support for recurring events. Known for learning quickly and teaching others, he pairs people-first leadership with a bias for shipping reliable, maintainable systems. Based in Kansas City, he blends entrepreneurial grit, a love of culture and coffee, and a knack for turning complex requirements into practical solutions.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
2-Year Degree Music Education, 2-Year Degree Music Education at Forerunner Music Academy
Spanish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
fullcalendar10
eventsource10
eventing10
javascript10
event-handling10
react10
calendars10
npm9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fullcalendar/fullcalendar-react
Dec 2018 - May 2019
The official React Component for FullCalendar
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 33 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on updating and modifying the React component for FullCalendar. Their work involved incorporating support for the rrule plugin, which is critical for recurring events. They updated the component to newer versions and made changes to the build process in the distribution files. These changes indicate active development and maintenance of the React component for integration with FullCalendar.
react-componentfullcalendarreactcalendarevent
joshuaRuff/fullCalendar_examples
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Full Calendar React Example
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
reactcalendarreact-calendarjavascriptreactjs
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