Joshua Kahn
Brand Architect at OkCupid
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Kahn is a Brand Architect and seasoned backend software engineer with 11 years of experience building and refining scalable systems, currently shaping product and technical direction at OkCupid in New York. He progressed through engineering roles into staff-level and now brand-facing responsibilities, bringing a pragmatic focus on clean, efficient code and rigorous communication and code review practices. Comfortable starting projects from scratch or streamlining legacy systems, he pairs technical depth with an eye for elegant, maintainable solutions. Outside work he’s a multi-instrumentalist and avid concert-goer who also manages an ice hockey team and explores modern board games, signaling leadership and team-building skills beyond engineering. His long tenure across Barracuda and OkCupid underscores a track record of impact in both product and infrastructure domains.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Michigan
Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (22)
spin9
testing8
thunderbird7
caching7
thunderbird-extension7
clipboard7
developer-tools6
emit6
chrome-extension6
continuous-integration6
php5
on-demand5
kubernetes5
redis4
instrumentation4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
garoose/copy-message-id
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
Thunderbird extension to add a button to the message header toolbar to copy the message ID to the clipboard.
Contributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 21 pushes in 10 months
toolbarclipboardheaderthunderbird-extensionbutton
garoose/constantsgen
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
pythonemit
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