Joshua Elliott is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building and leading engineering teams across startups and mid‑sized companies, currently shaping systems at Oxen. He has advanced from hands-on roles at SpotterRF and IBM Watson—contributing to the Watson Natural Language Understanding API—to senior engineering and leadership positions at Qntfy, GigSmart, and Turbine Labs. Joshua blends deep technical craftsmanship in data and backend systems with people leadership, having served as Director of Engineering and team lead roles that scaled teams and delivery. His academic background in linguistics informs a pragmatic approach to language-aware systems and NLP product work. Practical, team-focused, and curious, he’s comfortable toggling between coding complex systems and mentoring engineers to ship reliable, scalable software.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Linguistics at Brigham Young University
Contributions:20 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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Joshua Elliott - Principal Software Engineer at Oxen