Summary
Joshua Kifer is a pragmatic software engineer and founder with 15 years of experience turning early concepts into production products for startups and mission-driven ventures. He has led fast-paced prototyping and bootstrapping across web, mobile, services, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure, repeatedly delivering MVPs and v1 releases in tight timelines. His hands-on background spans full-stack development, marketplace and payments systems, ETL/data design, and ML integrations, plus decades of work in real-time UIs and tooling. As owner of moonlight(pm) he freelance-contracts on orchestration of rapid iteration cycles, and his career includes building products for unusual domains—from automated officer marketplaces to sustainable floating-island projects—demonstrating adaptability and product-oriented engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Japanese, Computer Science Japanese at The Evergreen State College
Computer Science, Computer Science at South Puget Sound Community College