Joshua Wood
Chaos Monkey at Honeybadger
Ridgefield, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Wood is a co-founder and hands-on developer with 12 years of experience who leads reliability and error-monitoring work at Honeybadger, where he still codes under the playful title "Chaos Monkey." He built Honeybadger to deliver instant, context-rich error and outage notifications and continues to maintain core pieces like the honeybadger-ruby gem, improving agent behavior, tests, and dependency hygiene. Based in Ridgefield, WA, he blends startup founder grit with day-to-day backend engineering, favoring pragmatic fixes that reduce downtime and speed troubleshooting. Always open to connecting with other developers, he brings product-minded engineering to observability and incident response.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
ruby10
version-control10
management10
versioning10
testing9
rails9
ruby-rails9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
honeybadger-io/honeybadger-ruby
Jan 2014 - Dec 2022
Ruby gem for reporting errors to honeybadger.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 121 reviews, 371 commits in 8 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to bug fixes and version updates within the Honeybadger Ruby gem. They resolved issues related to agent functionality, such as preventing sleeps within the ensure block, and updated the gem's version. The user also made changes to the test setup and configuration, improving the testing environment. Additionally, the user updated dependencies and made improvements to the error reporting and monitoring functionalities.
cli-commandruby-gemsinatrauser-feedbackreporting
honeybadger-io/heya
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
Heya 👋 is a campaign mailer for Rails. Think of it like ActionMailer, but for timed email sequences. It can also perform other actions like sending a text message.
Contributions:24 reviews, 204 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 1 month
text-messageactionmailermailerrailsthink
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