Josh Wright
Director Of Engineering - Core, Security Officer at Elation Health
Town of Manlius, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Wright is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience building secure, Linux-first systems and web services, currently serving as Director of Engineering - Core and Security Officer at Elation Health. He combines hands-on backend development (notably contributions to widely used open-source projects like django-allauth and improvements to the GoCQL Cassandra driver) with team leadership across security, platform, and core engineering. Comfortable in Python/Django and systems programming, he has a track record of refactoring legacy code, improving interoperability (IPv6, UUID/JSON handling), and shipping robust authentication and infrastructure features. Based in upstate New York, he pairs technical depth with real-world crisis experience as a long-time volunteer firefighter/paramedic, a perspective that informs his calm, risk-aware approach to incident response and secure system design.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic), Emergency Medical Technology/Technician (EMT Paramedic) at SUNY Upstate Emergency MedicineFayettevile Manlius High School
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Github Skills (32)
social-auth10
json10
python10
cassandra10
api-design10
django10
testing10
databases10
user-authentication10
authentication10
uuid10
go10
driver10
golang10
social-authentication10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skorokithakis/django-annoying
Dec 2012 - Oct 2013
A django application that tries to eliminate annoying things in the Django framework. ⛺
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the Django application. Their commits include adding a `value_from_object` method to the `JSONField` for improved JSON handling in the Django Admin and implementing a `content-length` header to `JsonResponse` for better client compatibility. They also fixed deprecated arguments and updated code to support different Django versions. They made significant improvements to the test suite.
djangopythondjango-frameworkdjango-application
pennersr/django-allauth
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `django-allauth` project, focusing on enhancing and maintaining the authentication and social login functionalities. Their commits addressed deprecation warnings, updated dependencies by preferring the standard library `importlib`, and added new features by including the Spotify OAuth 2 provider. The user also performed refactoring by removing deprecated request references and streamlining the codebase.
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