Joshua Kalpin
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoshua Kalpin is a software engineer with 14 years of experience and a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo, now based in Old Toronto and relocating to Toronto in November. He combines backend development and QA expertise, with notable open-source contributions to the widely used CocoaPods project where he improved repository management commands, validation, and test coverage. Currently committed to his role at Square and focused on opportunities in Canada, he prefers to stay local rather than pursue US positions. His work reflects a pragmatic attention to robustness and tooling quality, especially around package validation and source management—areas that often quietly prevent production incidents.
14 years of coding experience
OSSD, High School, OSSD, High School at William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Software Engineering (BSE), Software Engineering, Honours (Co-op), Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE), Software Engineering, Honours (Co-op) at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (10)
dependency-manager10
package-manager-tool10
objective-c10
package-manager10
testing9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
git7
swift5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CocoaPods/CocoaPods
Oct 2013 - Apr 2016
The Cocoa Dependency Manager.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed to the CocoaPods project by adding and modifying commands related to repository management, specifically the `repo remove` command. They also implemented and updated test cases, ensuring the functionality and reliability of the repository operations. Furthermore, the user worked on validating file patterns and paths within the project's specifications, enhancing the quality and robustness of the podspec validation process. Their work included significant changes to the validator and sources manager code.
cocoapodsobjective-cpackage-managermacdependency-manager
Kapin/Kapin.github.io
Oct 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:66 commits, 26 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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