Joshua R
Senior Director Of Engineering at Twilio
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua R is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building data-driven messaging and throughput platforms at scale, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at Twilio in Seattle. He blends product empathy—rooted in a longstanding focus on customer aspirations and frustrations—with deep technical leadership across machine learning, analytics, and data platform teams. Previously he led critical internal tooling and intelligence platforms at AWS, scaling organizations and delivery for global services used by millions. An early front-end contributor to Twilio/OpenVBX, he retains hands-on chops in UX-focused features alongside strategic system design. He hires and grows cross-functional teams, champions customer-first solutions, and has a background that uniquely pairs an M.S. in Information Systems with a B.A. in English, which informs clear technical communication.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Information Systems, M.S. Information Systems at George Mason University
Github Skills (7)
html10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
twilio/OpenVBX
Sep 2011 - Sep 2011
OpenVBX is a web-based open source phone system for business.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed primarily to the front-end development of the OpenVBX project. Their commits focused on building out the user interface within the iframe.php view, including the implementation of a client calling interface with make call and user list functionality. The user also added CSS styling to enhance the visual presentation, including status icons and layout adjustments. These changes are focused on improving the user experience.
web-basedphone
AuthySE/Authy-demo
Oct 2016 - Jul 2018
A simple implementation of an Authy protected site using NodeJS and AngularJS
Contributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 9 months
angularjsauthynodejs
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