Joshua Tomlin-casera
Software Engineering Manager at Lightspeed Commerce
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Tomlin-casera is a Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and scaling high-trust, high-autonomy engineering organizations across platform and product-focused teams. He has led teams of 9–12 engineers to double delivery speed, cut tech debt by a third, and drive dramatic performance improvements (10x app speedups) while accelerating hiring and onboarding. Joshua blends hands-on technical fluency (Python, TypeScript, AWS, CI/CD) with pragmatic people leadership—creating focused pods, streamlined documentation, and measurable KPIs that surface business impact and promotion pathways. He’s also an independent consultant and content/talent strategist who has grown creators to partner status and run a boutique animation studio, bringing a creative operations lens to engineering leadership. Known for piloting early AI prototyping and operational automation, he favors empowering engineers as product owners rather than task executors to unlock sustained innovation. Based in Canada, he pairs deep delivery chops with a knack for reorganizing teams and processes to make hiring, onboarding, and long-term growth more obvious and effective.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Brock University
English
Github Skills (14)
circleci10
jekyll9
api-blueprint9
api-documentation9
documentation8
cli7
continuous-integration7
redoc7
command-line-tool7
golang6
continuous-delivery6
devops5
graphql5
developer-tools4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JCasera/MHR-Bingo
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
JCasera/ERCharacterCard
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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