Josh Willis
Senior Frontend Developer at Playful Software
Portland, Oregon, United States
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SeniorJosh Willis is a Senior Frontend Developer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications across PHP, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. He’s led teams and products—from modernizing legacy LAMP systems and migrating procedural PHP to Laravel to architecting React/Redux frontends and Cordova mobile clients—while owning database design, CI, and cloud deployments on AWS and Google Cloud. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a strong sense of readable, testable, and secure code rather than framework fetishism. Josh has repeatedly taken flagships from brittle to maintainable (notably a property management system and large CMS refactors) and built integrations like SOAP/XML channel managers that solved real business needs. He enjoys untangling messy legacy systems as much as shipping polished front-end experiences, and still remembers the quirks of dial-up-era web development that shaped his curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developerGithub contributions (1)
BuilderDesigns/Favorites
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
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