Summary
Josh Stephenson is an AI engineer and founder with eight years of experience building and leading mobile app teams and agencies that deliver award-winning, accessible products. He combines creative agency sensibility with deep technical leadership—having architected flagship mobile experiences for brands like Nike and led teams scaling Rails apps to millions of hits per day. As founder/CTO of Bright Mediums he continues to guide design-forward, sustainable development while mentoring engineers and growing client-focused engineering teams. Pursuing an MS in Computational Linguistics, he blends interests in language, data structures and algorithms to drive language-aware applications and research-informed product decisions. He also writes about labor economics and technology, reflecting an uncommon mix of economics, linguistics, and pragmatic engineering. Formerly an iOS instructor and prolific GitHub tinkerer, he enjoys exploring search and guessing problems in code.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, 4.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics, 4.1 at Arizona State University
Fine/Studio Arts, General, Fine/Studio Arts, General at The University of New Mexico
Spanish, Korean, German