Joshua Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Excella
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Powell is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of engineering experience and a background in economics that informs a data-driven, systems-oriented approach to problem solving. He transitioned from roles in finance and operations into full-time Ruby on Rails development, where he focuses on backend refactors, API design, CI, and system enhancements to elevate clients’ decision tools and business performance. At Excella and previously at Innovative Operations he has driven full-stack projects and process re-engineering while mentoring cross-functional teams in Agile delivery. An active open-source contributor, he has improved compatibility and removed deprecations in the popular Spree eCommerce platform, demonstrating care for long-lived, modular codebases. Off the clock he channels the same tinkering curiosity—swimming, cycling, running with his young son and experimenting in the kitchen—which underpins a practical, hands-on engineering style.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at The George Washington University
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
ecommerce10
rails10
ruby10
activerecord10
spree10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
database-migrations9
refactor9
database-migration9
refactoring9
excel6
activeadmin6
xml-parsing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 19 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on refactoring and fixing deprecation warnings within the Spree e-commerce platform. They updated several core models, including `Order`, `Shipment`, `CreditCard`, and `Zone`, removing deprecated code and ensuring compatibility. They also made improvements to specific files related to promotions, images, and stock items. Furthermore, the user added a check to remove columns before migration.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
joshRpowell/oh-my-zsh
Nov 2015 - Jun 2023
A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 200+ optional plugins (rails, git, OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, php, python, etc), over 140 themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
pythonrails-pluginszsh-configurationauto-updatecapistrano
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