Joshua Brown
Sr Software Engineer at ZeniMax Media
Rockville, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Brown is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience transitioning from a background in journalism to building robust web applications, currently contributing at ZeniMax Media. He combines investigative curiosity from his reporting days with practical web development skills honed since early hobbyist projects and guided mentorship, enabling creative, lateral problem-solving. Joshua has a track record across media and consulting firms, including U.S. News & World Report and Lightcastle, where he translated ambiguous requirements into reliable user-facing systems. Based in Rockville, MD, he brings a storyteller's clarity to technical communication and a knack for seeing unconventional solutions—a quality also reflected in a viral Reddit story he wrote about UFOs that resurfaced years later.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, English/journalism, Bachelor's degree, English/journalism at Valdosta State UniversityAssociate's degree, Journalism, Associate's degree, Journalism at Darton College
Spanish
Github Skills (14)
shadow10
autocomplete8
typeahead8
api6
javascript6
ruby-on-rails5
typescript5
rails4
ruby4
react2
nodejs2
jquery1
meteor1
online-game1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lightcastle/employee-timecards
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 5 months
jlegs/horseracing
May 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year 4 months
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