Joshua Rush
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Rush is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building front-end and full-stack web applications across major cloud and platform teams. Having shipped features at GitHub and Microsoft and contributed to Rackspace’s public cloud control panel, he brings deep practical expertise in JavaScript/React, Python/Django, Ruby, and systems-level C++/C#. He excels at translating product needs into polished, maintainable interfaces and scalable backend integrations, often working across teams to close the gap between UX and infrastructure. Based in Durham, NC, he pairs a rigorous Computer Science foundation (3.98 GPA from Virginia Tech) with a track record of shipping customer-facing platform features at scale. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic engineering decisions and cross-stack fluency that speeds delivery without sacrificing code quality. He also has a history of moving between high-velocity startup-like teams and large-platform organizations, giving him a knack for adapting tooling and workflows to fit team maturity.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (47)
react-component-library10
meta10
component-library10
fluentui10
office-ui-fabric10
react10
ui-components9
microsoft9
react-components9
javascript9
web-components9
bem9
typescript9
css9
azure-devops9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jdrush89/primer-react
Jul 2022 - Aug 2023
An implementation of GitHub's Primer Design System using React
Contributions:1 PR, 38 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
primerreactprimer-designdesign-systemtypescript
jdrush89/Josh-Website
Jul 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 3 months
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