Summary
Joshua French is a seasoned software engineering manager with 18 years of experience building tools and shipping production systems across startups and large companies, currently leading teams at Trimble. Equally comfortable with low-level systems and high-level product concerns, he pairs hands-on coding (Java, Python, Ruby, C#/.NET) with pragmatic leadership and rapid learning. His background includes a stint at Google following the acquisition of Zave Networks and long-term consulting work that reflects a breadth of technical ownership from hardware support to full game development pipelines. An active contributor to tooling and open source within the game-dev ecosystem, he enjoys creating developer-focused utilities and giving back to the community. Based in Broomfield, Colorado, he brings a problem-solving mindset, clear technical writing, and a knack for turning complex technical debt into maintainable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science Computer Science, BS Computer Science Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology