Joshua Shaffner
Owner at Savvy Geeks
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Shaffner is an experienced engineering leader and founder with over 16 years building real-time communications, web, and analytics platforms across startups, consulting, and corporate settings. As VP of Technology and Director of Engineering he scaled teams from a few engineers to 25+ while delivering FCC-recognized accessibility innovations and multi-million-dollar, highly available video conferencing products. He blends hands-on full-stack development (Ruby, Rails, FreeSWITCH, PHP, MySQL, Vue.js) with product and program management, creating dashboards, reporting systems, and mobile apps that drove measurable growth and cost savings. Joshua has a knack for pragmatic reuse of open-source technology to cut time-to-market and costs—often achieving 66% faster delivery and 75% savings through smart outsourcing and integration. Based in the DC–Baltimore area and schooled at Gallaudet University, he pairs technical depth with a human-centered approach to product design and team leadership.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Systems, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Systems, Cum Laude at Gallaudet University
Github Skills (31)
slime7
tagsinput5
autocomplete5
javascript4
reload4
extraction4
loader4
authentication4
react4
webpack-plugin4
vue-loader3
vue3
emacs3
linting3
vuejs23
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jShaf/phpstorm
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
jShaf/stella
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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