Joshua Smith
Software Engineer at Gamma
Albany, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Smith is a seasoned IC software engineering leader with 12 years of experience who has driven product and organizational improvements from early Asana features to launching Asana’s first LLM-backed capabilities and now contributing at Gamma. He blends hands-on frontend and performance work—having turned page-load performance into a competitive advantage and led a migration to a modern TypeScript/React stack—with strong program-level impact like rolling out tech lead health checks and scaling project lead practices across R&D. Joshua consistently ships customer-facing improvements (e.g., redesigns that boosted task creation and adoption by 40%) while cultivating technical talent—several direct reports became tech leads under his coaching. Based in Albany, CA, he pairs thoughtful process design with pragmatic engineering, and has a background teaching functional programming and outdoor leadership that underscores his mentorship and systems-thinking approach.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityPre-college Business, Pre-college Business at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (27)
typescript10
asana-api10
vscode-plugin9
dts9
binding9
typescript-definitions8
api7
imports7
backend6
react6
traits5
exports5
asana5
vscode-extension5
vscode4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Asana/typescript-namespace-imports-vscode-plugin
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 25 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years
vscodevscode-extensionnamespacevscode-pluginimports
Josh211ua/mini-games
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
reactgamegamessmall-gamesreactjs
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