Joshua Wright
Senior Ground Software Engineer at Rocket Lab
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Wright is a Senior Ground Software Engineer with nine years of experience building full-stack, web-based systems—specializing in Angular, NestJS, Node.js and MongoDB—to solve operational challenges in mining and laboratory environments. He blends a formal engineering background (BS Materials Engineering, MS Geometallurgy) and hands-on metallurgical project work with proven software leadership, having reduced a workbook generation task from 40 hours to under 10 seconds and led automation of metallurgical testing and custom BLE data collection. At Rocket Lab and prior as a tech lead, he has driven cross-disciplinary teams to deliver scalable, containerized solutions and mission-aligned ground software. He also runs a client-facing consultancy, shipping university and research apps that integrate SAML auth and support hundreds of users each semester, underscoring his focus on secure, production-ready systems. Based in Littleton, Colorado, Joshua pairs domain expertise in mining/metallurgy with pragmatic engineering to accelerate data-driven workflows in heavy-industry settings.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMaster of Science (MS), Geometallurgy, Master of Science (MS), Geometallurgy at University of New BrunswickGraduate Course Work, Metallurgical Engineering, 4.0, Graduate Course Work, Metallurgical Engineering, 4.0 at University of Nevada-Reno
Github Skills (129)
datatable10
extensible10
datagrid10
nx-workspace10
javascript10
ng10
yarn-workspaces10
monorepo10
width10
node-serialport10
angular10
cli10
directive10
typescript10
nrwl-nx10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DesertFoxNV/known-unknowns-multiple-exemplar-experiment
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Known Unknowns Multiple Exemplar Experiment
Contributions:3 PRs, 231 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
exemplar
joshuawwright/ngx-autosize-input
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
is an Angular directive that automatically adjusts the width of an input element. Its is unique because it both shrinks and increases the width.
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 44 commits in 5 years 2 months
ngwidthsummernotedirectiveangular
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