Josh Weir
Software Engineer at Smokeball
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJosh Weir is a versatile software engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering user-facing applications and integrations across web and mobile platforms. He currently builds full-stack React/React Native and Node.js solutions at Smokeball, leveraging TypeScript, GraphQL/Apollo, Redux and AWS to connect product features with complex backend systems. Previously at Accenture he combined technical delivery with team leadership—introducing Agile practices, architecting large-scale integrations with SAP and automating business workflows—alongside hiring and mentoring developers. His grounding in telecommunications and early systems/network administration gives him a practical systems perspective that informs reliable, maintainable designs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves between hands-on coding and facilitation roles, keeping user impact and operational robustness front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Telecommunications Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (67)
rubyml10
javascript9
tokenizer9
dockerfile9
docker9
react9
artificial-intelligence9
environment-variables9
typescript9
html8
ruby8
vector-search8
machine-learning8
rubynlp8
sense2vec8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joshweir/tokenizer
Mar 2017 - Jun 2023
A simple tokenizer in Ruby for NLP tasks.
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
nlpnlp-tasksrubytokenizernatural-language-processing
joshweir/citeproc-ruby
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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