Joshua Emmons
Senior Software Engineer - Native Applications
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Emmons is a senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building native mobile applications, backend APIs, and developer-facing tools across startups and product companies. Currently at Sweetwater and founder of Four Star Studios, he blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurship—shipping consumer apps, a digital comic anthology and publishing work for Dark Horse Comics. He’s rebuilt large-scale iOS products (Reverb) and led mobile initiatives that span Swift, SwiftUI, C++, Node/Hapi, and hybrid native/web architectures. Joshua has a track record of owning end-to-end systems from customer-facing apps to curriculum creation and billing services, and he often steps into product and design roles at lean teams. Based in Chicago, he pairs a creative background in comics and indie game ventures with pragmatic engineering that measurably improves product metrics.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at St. John's College
Stackoverflow
18,637reputation
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120answers
23questions
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swift
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Github Skills (91)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jemmons/Gauntlet
May 2015 - Nov 2019
A finite state machine for Swift.
Contributions:5 releases, 27 PRs, 102 pushes in 4 years 7 months
finite-statefsm-libraryfsmgeneratorsfinite-state-machine
jemmons/MyNameIsURL
Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
URL Matching in Swift
Contributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
matchingswifturl-matching
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