Joshua Mclucas
Staff Frontend Engineer at Close
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Mclucas is a Staff Frontend Engineer in Philadelphia with 11 years of experience building responsive, product-focused web applications and leading frontend work at startups and scale-ups. He blends a theatrical background—years as an actor, director, and artistic director—with deep React/JavaScript expertise to craft engaging UIs and clear product storytelling. His recent roles include staff-level frontend leadership at Close and Retrium, and earlier work spans cybersecurity and blockchain-adjacent projects where he focused on robust, user-centric frontends. Comfortable moving between hands-on coding, design thinking, and team mentorship, he has a track record of modernizing legacy apps and shipping performant React/Redux interfaces. That dual training in theater and engineering gives him an uncommon knack for user empathy, communication, and framing technical work as creative collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Theater, Theater at SITI Company Summer Theater WorkshopBachelor’s Degree Theatre/Theater; Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Theatre/Theater; Psychology at Swarthmore CollegeActing, Acting at British American Drama AcademyWyoming Seminary College Prep
Github Skills (31)
git9
github9
wysiwyg8
pulse8
rich-text8
patch7
accessibility7
javascript7
vue7
react7
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editorjs6
draft-js6
contenteditable6
rte6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jtmclucas13/mclucas-portfolio
Feb 2019 - Apr 2023
www.joshuamclucas.com - Joshua McLucas' web home
Contributions:59 PRs, 86 pushes, 55 branches in 4 years 3 months
reactjoshua
Retrium/dev-candidate
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 32 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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