Joshua Gagnon
CTO at Property Shell
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Gagnon is a seasoned CTO and full-stack engineer with 11+ years building high-availability web platforms and business software across Australia and New Zealand. He leads technical strategy and delivery at Property Shell and CataLex, blending hands-on Python, PHP, PostgreSQL and extensive React.js expertise to ship resilient, test-driven systems on AWS. His background ranges from bioinformatics to product-focused startups, giving him a knack for turning complex domain logic into pragmatic, maintainable architectures. An active open-source contributor, he has improved normalization and keyed-form handling in the widely used redux-form library, demonstrating attention to subtle front-end state issues. Colleagues rely on him for CI/test-suite design, scalability planning and pragmatic DevOps decisions that bridge engineering and product needs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
forms10
form-validation10
redux10
react10
redux-form10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
redux-form/redux-form
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
A Higher Order Component using react-redux to keep form state in a Redux store
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Joshua made several commits focused on improving the normalization logic within the Redux-Form library. These commits included refactoring the reducer to handle keyed forms, ensuring correct value extraction, and fixing normalization behaviors. They also added tests specifically for keyed form normalization. Furthermore, the user merged branch updates and addressed merge conflicts within the codebase.
reactkeepredux-formvalidationform-state
joshgagnon/working-days-gui
Jun 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 6 months
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