Josh Stern
Senior Software Engineer at Watershed
City of Kingston, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Stern is a senior full-stack engineer with a decade of experience building scalable frontend, backend, and infrastructure systems across startups and product-led companies. He’s delivered production software at organizations from Compass and Loom to Cruise and now Watershed, bringing a pragmatic focus on reliability and cross-team collaboration. Known as an empathetic mentor, he routinely drives technical excellence and helps teams level up through code reviews and hands-on guidance. His roots in academic research and early hardware-to-browser projects reveal a long-standing interest in bridging embedded systems and web technologies. Based in Kingston, New York, he combines startup agility with enterprise-grade engineering practices to ship impactful features. Colleagues describe him as a steady problem-solver who prefers shipping durable solutions over flashy prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (52)
python-development10
typescript10
virtualenv10
pip10
fluent-api10
ffmpeg9
pipfile9
python9
packaging9
omnibox9
signal-protocol9
idl8
mermaid8
json-schema7
electron7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JoshStern/SkyReplacement
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
JoshStern/mktemp
Feb 2021 - May 2023
Simple async temporary files and directories for NodeJS
Contributions:8 releases, 22 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 3 months
asyncnodejstemporary-files
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