Josh Steiner
Principal Engineer at Josh Steiner Consulting
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Steiner is a Principal Engineer and former co-founder with 14 years of hands-on experience building mobile-first and cloud-native systems, and two decades of leadership in launching products and companies. Based in Oakland, he specializes in scalable backend architectures and real-time mobile solutions across Android, iOS, Node/TypeScript, Python/Django, and cloud platforms like AWS and GCP. He has been a first-wave engineer for multiple startups and runs Josh Steiner Consulting, helping early-stage teams define and implement core infrastructure and high-usability experiences. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved Elixir’s ExMachina test-data library by refactoring its Ecto integration and adding factory-building features, reflecting a penchant for pragmatic developer ergonomics. Known for bridging small, nimble teams and international partner networks, he combines product sensibility with deep architectural rigor.
14 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Antioch College
German
Github Skills (4)
ecto10
elixir10
testing9
test-framework8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
beam-community/ex_machina
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Create test data for Elixir applications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 64 PRs, 153 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily refactored and enhanced the `ExMachina` library, which is used for creating test data in Elixir applications. Their work involved renaming variables, implementing new functionalities like `fields_for`, `build_list`, and `build_pair`, and improving the internal architecture of the library by extracting Ecto-related functionality into a separate module and migrating definitions to a macro. These changes streamlined the process of defining factories and managing associations, ultimately improving the library's overall usability and efficiency.
elixirtest-datatestingfactory-definitionsfactories
jsteiner/jsteiner.github.com
Apr 2015 - May 2024
My personal website
Contributions:30 pushes in 9 years 2 months
reactnextjs
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