Joshua Jeffryes is a multidisciplinary product leader and hands-on builder with over 20 years of experience designing, engineering, and scaling data-driven web and mobile products. Currently leading UX/UI at Data Society, he has repeatedly taken teams from discovery to product-market fit—combining UX, front-end engineering, and lean product management to ship award-winning B2B, B2C and P2P experiences. He’s led engineering and product at startups and enterprises (VP engineering roles, cofounder experience) and contributed substantial front- and back-end work to the notable OpenBazaar open-source project. Known for growing high-empathy, diverse remote teams with pragmatic agile processes, he pairs rapid prototyping and no-code experimentation with production-grade stacks like React, TypeScript, Go and Node. A former stage illusion designer and early cartoonist, he brings an unusual creative problem-solving bent to product architecture and team-building.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Art, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Art, Graphic Design at Missouri State University
(DEPRECATED) Front-end Electron application for talking with the OpenBazaar-Server daemon
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:44 releases, 2581 commits, 1408 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the front-end of the OpenBazaar client, specifically focusing on translating and implementing new phrases and features within the user interface. Their work involved modifying the `languagesMd.js` files to add, change, and translate text strings in different languages, as well as modifying the UI components of the app. The user added the option to select and add shipping regions to the listing creation form.
OpenBazaar 2.0 Desktop Client (talks to openbazaar-go server daemon)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:33 releases, 2346 commits, 963 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joshua's commits primarily focus on the front-end development aspects of the OpenBazaar desktop client. They made substantial contributions to the UI, including implementing and refining update status messages. Their work also involved refactoring existing code, preventing duplicate messages, and ensuring the display of data within the application's interface. The user also worked on the application's integration with the software update functionality.
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