Josh Smith is a creator and founder with 15 years of hands-on engineering and product experience, building web and mobile products through his agency Coderly and launching focused learning tools like Keyhero. Based in San Diego, he blends backend engineering chops—demonstrated by substantive open-source contributions to Elixir Stripe integrations and Node.js Google Maps tooling—with a founder’s eye for user-focused experiences. Comfortable moving between code, docs, and product, he has shipped API integrations, static map features, and refactors that improve maintainability and testability. His background in art history and philosophy fuels a design-minded, pragmatic approach to building tools people enjoy using.
Contributions:1 release, 189 commits, 176 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh's primary contribution involved adding and modifying code related to the Stripe API integration. They added features like `Stripe.Account`, `Stripe.Customer`, `Stripe.Plan`, and `Stripe.Subscription`, indicating a focus on building out the core functionality of interacting with Stripe's services. The user also fixed code and documentation and refactored code.
A simple way to query the Google Maps API from Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Josh significantly contributed to the `node-googlemaps` repository by implementing and expanding the functionality for the static maps API. They added the `staticMap` method, incorporated features for markers, styles, and paths, and updated the testing framework. This included modifying the core library file to allow for the generation of Google Maps API URLs with a range of parameters and testing the implementation. The user finalized the static maps feature set and updated the project documentation.
queryapigoogle-apigooglemapsgoogle-maps-api
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