Joshua Ellinger is a Senior Engineering Manager based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience uniting multidisciplinary teams to deliver highly usable web and cloud products. At Lucidworks he builds engineering programs—career ladders, skills matrices, and cross-team health tracking using DORA and Spotify checks—while coaching managers and scaling global teams across four continents. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering (cloud, backend, frontend) with a strong UX-first mindset, turning qualitative and quantitative research into measurable product improvements. Known for taking disparate ideas and stitching them into cohesive platforms, he has led zero-to-one launches, acquisition integrations, and company-wide hiring and hackathon programs. Joshua’s background in film and digital media informs his strategic use of multimedia to create unified messages across properties, and he prioritizes eliminating user friction through rigorous design and operational practices.
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Joshua Ellinger - Senior Engineering Manager at Lucidworks