Joshua French
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua French is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products across Microsoft and GitHub. Based in Longmont, Colorado, he has progressed through roles from SDET to senior engineer, bringing deep expertise in developer tooling, reliability, and platform engineering. His career reflects a strong foundation in both testing and production engineering—an unusual blend that helps him bridge quality and delivery in complex systems. Joshua holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Colorado School of Mines and often combines academic rigor with practical, production-first solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (72)
github10
visual-studio10
editor10
api10
github-api10
golang10
highcharts10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
github-issues10
microsoft10
react10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
just-joshing/datadog-dashboard-lister
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
just-joshing/dotfiles
May 2020 - Apr 2025
My environment setup for codespaces
Contributions:8 PRs, 45 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
dotfilesenvironment-setup
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