Josiah Witt
Software Engineer at DXOS
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJosiah Witt is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications and open source platforms, currently contributing to DXOS from Hamilton, Ontario. He has moved between startups and product teams—leading development at Hifyre and building data-driven features at Layer 6 and Tamr—bringing strong front-end expertise in React and a solid backend toolkit including Java and search technologies. Josiah’s open-source contributions include UI and tag-management work on the decentralized messaging app Patchwork (Secure Scuttlebutt), reflecting an interest in peer-to-peer and privacy-respecting systems. He combines product-minded engineering—shipping user-facing features and tooling for executives and assistants—with hands-on work improving recall, deduplication, and search-driven UX. Collected experience across domains (NLP, scheduling, satellite systems and datacenter ops) gives him a practical edge in turning complex data problems into usable interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Pre-Engineering, Highschool Diploma, Pre-Engineering at Westdale Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (14)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react9
interface-design9
user-interface9
http6
ios6
distillery6
erlang6
iphone6
elixir6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ssbc/patchwork
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Josiah primarily focused on the development of the application's user interface and associated features. Their commits included adding tag management functionalities, integrating with the "patch-tag" module, and improving the UI of the tags page. These changes involved modifying existing files and adding new components related to tag editing and display within the application's user interface and menu.
securescuttlebuttssbsharing-appp2p
wittjosiah/config
May 2020 - Jun 2022
General system config and dotfiles
Contributions:2 PRs, 26 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
vimkarabinersystem-configtmuxconfig
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