Joshua Clanton
Skills
Technical
Josh is deeply familiar with most aspects of front end technology, but here are a few highlights:
- React — 6 years experience
- TypeScript — 8 years experience
- Webpack — 8 years experience
- Responsive Web Design — 12 years experience
- Semantic HTML, CSS, & JavaScript — 16 years experience
Some other technologies Josh has noteworthy experience in:
- Go - 1 year of experience
- Docker - 4 years experience
- Node.js - 8 years experience
Collaboration & Communication
- Excellent written communication skills
- A design background that helps discuss tradeoffs of various approaches with designers
- Mentorship and technical training
- Familiar with the theory and practice of agile and lean software development
Experience & Education
Microsoft - Senior Software Engineer
January 2021 - May 2023
- Led revamp of front-end tooling for Azure IoT Central, resulting in greater developer productivity and reduced defect rates
- Stewarded end-to-end browser test framework used both as a release gate and for continuous testing in production
- Provided on-going mentorship to less-experienced engineers and education to UX engineers generally
Hobsons — Lead Software Engineer
November 2011 – July 2020
- Served as Lead on both product teams and UI Architecture team.
- Experience developing and maintaining large scale single-page applications and SaaS products
- Six years experience working completely remote
- Created living style guides and led UI design/technology migration efforts in large legacy systems.
- Led accessibility efforts culminating in 100% WCAG AA compliance on a very large React codebase.
- Responsible for training developers on front-end technologies and methodologies.
- Led UI development on highly interactive online curriculum product.
Design Pepper — Owner & Web Developer
2007 – 2011
Freelance web design and development for small businesses.
Rogers State University
B.S. in Business Information Technology
Projects
ahkpm: The package manager for AutoHotKey, a Windows automation toolkit and language. ahkpm itself is written in Go.
Prose for Programmers: A work in progress, this Creative Commons book is aimed at teaching developers how to write clearly and effectively.
A Drip of JavaScript: A weekly (and then biweekly) email newsletter which delivered a focused lesson on JavaScript in each installment.
Underscore Contrib: An official companion project to the popular Underscore library. As a core contributor to the library, Josh expanded on its functionality and wrote much of its documentation.
What Other People Say
Josh is an incredible engineering collaborator on complex UX/UI focused applications. He systematically breaks down designs into modular, reusable React components. This has allowed our teams to move from single use patterns to a modern design system.
Additionally, Josh mentors other engineers so that they can leverage the full capabilities of modern UI stacks. He also has a human-centered mentality that makes design and business pivots easy to navigate.
Josh's knowledge on the latest and greatest in the JavaScript universe is unmatchable. He is an asset to any organization. If Josh is on the team then you can rest assured he will get the job done.
Contact
Email: joshua.clanton@gmail.com
Phone: +1 (603) 730-2609
Address: 32 Ridge View Drive, Albany, NH 03818, USA