Joshua Slate
Founding Consultant at Slate Consulting LLC
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Slate is a founding consultant and full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience helping small businesses and nonprofits streamline operations, cut costs, and grow revenue through tech-driven product development, marketing automation, and data-driven forecasting. He founded Slate Consulting to deliver remote inventory, order-tracking, and advertising solutions and has led strategic, operational, and web development roles across import brokerage and retail businesses. Comfortable across the MERN stack—demonstrated by contributions to a MERN starter project that improved payment and chat reliability—he blends hands-on coding with higher-level market research, SEO, and budget optimization. A former educator with advanced training in teaching and a background in philosophy, he combines analytical rigor and clear communication to translate complex requirements into practical systems. Based in Colorado Springs, he seeks leadership roles where measurable profitability and operational efficiency are priorities.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Tecolote Fellow, Education, Tecolote Fellow, Education at St. John's College (NM)Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-MadisonSummer Coarse, German Language, Summer Coarse, German Language at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Arts (M.A.), Elementary Education and Teaching, Master of Arts (M.A.), Elementary Education and Teaching at The University of New Mexico
Spanish, German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
expressjs10
fullstack-development10
full-stack10
react10
mongodb-database9
nodejs9
mongodb9
rest-api8
error-handling8
api-rest8
restful-api8
api-design8
redux7
mean-stack6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joshuaslate/mern-starter
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
A simple starter/seed project for a fullstack JavaScript app using MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 21 PRs, 58 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to both the backend and frontend components of the MERN starter project. They fixed issues within the Stripe controller, refactored chat handlers on the backend, and started refactoring the client-side chat components. Further contributions included improving error handling across the application and updating dependencies, indicating a focus on overall application stability and maintainability. The user also implemented modal components for the client-side.
reactexpressjsexpress-mongodbjavascriptexpress
joshuaslate/node-yelp-api
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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