Joshua Bodah
Software Engineer at Valon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Bodah is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable, scalable systems for small to medium-sized companies, currently at Valon after a long tenure at Stripe. He specializes in Ruby, Go, and Elixir and brings deep practical experience in databases, distributed systems, and operational reliability. His background spans product-focused engineering at firms like CarGurus, Wistia, and Datto, plus research software work early in his career, reflecting a strong foundation in both theory and production. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved Elixir developer tooling by enhancing vim-elixir syntax highlighting and editor ergonomics—a small but widely useful contribution for Elixir users. Based in Boston, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with a BS in Mathematics, which underpins his methodical approach to engineering tradeoffs. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who prefers shipping resilient systems over heroic firefighting.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
elixir10
vimscript10
exunit10
test-unit10
syntax-highlighting10
text-editor9
editorconfig9
vim9
minitest6
mixins6
ruby-on-rails6
extend6
ruby6
javascript6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-editors/vim-elixir
Oct 2016 - Jun 2022
Vim configuration files for Elixir
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 228 commits, 173 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the `vim-elixir` repository by enhancing the Elixir syntax highlighting capabilities within Vim. Their work involved modifying the Elixir syntax files to correctly identify and highlight keywords, atoms, and other language constructs. Key contributions include adding and refining syntax highlighting for Elixir's ExUnit testing framework, and implementing features like auto-completion of string quotes and various data structures.
elixirvim
jbodah/spy_rb
Aug 2014 - Apr 2019
:mag: Transparent Test Spies for Ruby
Contributions:202 commits, 23 PRs, 141 pushes in 4 years 8 months
rubymockingtesting
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