Joshua Romero
Frontend Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Romero is a Frontend Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience blending software development and journalism to build intuitive data-driven interfaces and visualizations. Comfortable shipping production front-ends at scale (currently at Amazon) and contributing to open-source projects like OpenSearch Dashboards, he brings practical UX sensibilities to component and UI refactors. His background in investigative reporting and analytics informs a disciplined approach to data integrity—evident in earlier backend scraping work standardizing public meeting data. Equally at home writing prose or tests, he’s known for migrating test suites, improving developer ergonomics, and turning complex data into clear, actionable presentations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaMA, Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting (Journalism), MA, Science, Health, and Environmental Reporting (Journalism) at New York University
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
pytest10
python10
jes10
testing10
eui10
webscraping10
scrapy10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
jtest10
react10
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/OpenSearch-Dashboards
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
📊 Open source visualization dashboards for OpenSearch.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1631 reviews, 58 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the OpenSearch Dashboards front-end, focusing on improvements to the user interface and components. Their work included refactoring and enhancing field summaries, integrating EUI icon types, and modifying header elements. They were also involved in migrating mocha tests to jest.
analyticsdashboardsfossapache2opensearch
City-Bureau/city-scrapers
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Scrape, standardize and share public meetings from local government websites
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the development of a scraper for public meetings data. They added a new scraper for the Illinois Labor Relations Board, including tests and refactoring of the code for consistency. The user implemented ID generation and refactored start/end handling within the scraper. Furthermore, they modified the scraper to align with the standards of other scrapers within the project.
city-scraperspythonscrapyscrapestandardize
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