Joshua Adams
Senior Software Engineer at GridPoint
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Adams is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building and leading Ruby on Rails and Elixir/Phoenix projects. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Ruby, Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, and Git with a strong advocacy for Test-Driven Development and continuous process improvements. At Annkissam he led the FMS Enrollment Module and coached junior developers while optimizing complex reporting and system architecture for human services clients. He enjoys mentoring peers, designing individualized developer training, and organizing culture-building events like hackathons to drive team engagement. Comfortable both as an individual consultant and as a senior engineer at GridPoint, he brings a scientific mindset from an Astronomy/Physics degree to pragmatic software design and long-term stability planning. Unusually for an engineer, he pairs technical leadership with formal experience coordinating cross-functional processes and training strategies.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Astronomy Physics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Astronomy Physics at Colgate University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
ransack10
searching9
sorting8
elixir8
pagination8
elixir-programming-language8
flatpickr8
metasearch7
collections7
ecto6
deployment-automation6
phoenix-framework6
authorization6
websocket6
authentication6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
annkissam/aegis
Feb 2018 - Aug 2024
Lightweight, flexible resource authorization.
Contributions:9 PRs, 23 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 7 months
authorization
aeturnumfluctus/resu_mate
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
simple resume generator built using Elixir
Contributions:1 review, 58 commits, 8 PRs in 5 days
elixir
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