Josh Clayton

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• RSpec
• GraphQL
• Rust
• Elm
• PostgreSQL

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• RSpec
• GraphQL
• Rust
• Elm
• PostgreSQL

Business

• Grew 2021 projected revenue by 15% to $7.5MM and profit from $725k to $1.6MM
• Led the sales process from customer discovery to contract signature while ensuring work closed aligned with teammate interests
• Selected successful engagements include projects with Mozilla, New England Journal of Medicine, Epic Games, Code for America, and Cisco Meraki

Consulting Engagements

• Transitioned a set of disparate services (Typeform, Shopify, Google Sheets, Zoom) managing virtual events to a well-tested internal platform built in Ruby on Rails managing hundreds of seminars and thousands of events
• Migrated a complicated deployment architecture of static content and an Elixir & Phoenix application to Heroku and Netlify with Cloudflare, serving 5.5B requests and 225TB of content monthly
• Ingested multiple years of financial data from a client's data warehouse into an internal Rails product to equip the executive team to make data-driven decisions about future product releases and promotions
• Partnered with two teammates to develop custom content for a two-day RSpec workshop administered to over 75 engineers of varying skill levels

Hiring

• Redesigned hiring processes to assess for high-level strategy and tactics for two open Director roles within Boost
• Developed a working Rails application, jobs-to-be-done stories, and rubric for Boost's final-stage Rails interview to reduce bias and increase confidence in hiring decisions

Team Upskilling and Enablement

• Coordinated team bi-weekly meetings with topics ranging from web accessibility and GraphQL to consulting considerations and how thoughtbot operates as a business
• Worked with technical leaders on the team to optimize client staffing to balance skillsets required against growth opportunities for the team
• Developed two Rust-based CLI tools to support technical evaluation of potential client codebases
• Introduced a six-email drip campaign for all new teammates joining Boost to provide context around team history, areas of focus, and expectations

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• RSpec
• GraphQL
• Rust
• Elm
• PostgreSQL
• Elixir/Phoenix
• Heroku
• Netlify

• Partnered with technical leadership to redesign thoughtbot's Rails technical interview to reduce bias and increase confidence in hiring decisions
• Introduced lunch-and-learn events to build client relationships and level up engineers' skill sets
• Developed and led software consulting workshops to increase software consulting capacity within and beyond the Boston team
• Consulted across a broad set of services, including full-stack software development, technical leadership, technical process and SDLC, product management, project management, and project advisorship for more than sixty clients
• Mentored at both MassChallenge and TechStars Boston to engage with company founders of Boston's start-up scene
• Managed the FactoryBot and FactoryBotRails Rubygems from the 2.0 release through the 4.8 release, including feature development, issue triage, and community engagement

Consulting Engagements

• Researched, developed a strategy for, and began initial implementation to replace a home-grown authentication system with Devise in a monolith Rails application
• Developed a suite of Elm packages to power Mariott Bonvoy Moments' interactive booking flow
• Provided technical project management and front-end development support (TypeScript and Angular) on an internal-facing tool for Google
• Crafted a take-home technical interview for an online retailer to administer to applicants, including rubric, assessment criteria, and support for varying seniority levels

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• RSpec
• GraphQL
• Haskell
• Elm
• PostgreSQL
• Elixir/Phoenix
• Heroku
• EmberJS
• BackboneJS
• TypeScript
• CoffeeScript
• AngularJS
• Redis

• Consulted with clients across a number of different industries, including e-commerce, edtech, and martech platforms
• Developed and led a two-day in-person workshop, Test-Driven Rails, over multiple years, before moving the content online
• Completed multiple rotations as product manager for thoughtbot's Airbrake product
• Co-authored a 60-page e-book, Geocoding on Rails, with Laila Winner
• Authored one of thoughtbot's most-viewed blog posts, A Tmux Crash Course

Consulting Engagements

• Designed and implemented a microservice for efficient curated ad-based targeting, driving 75th percentile response times from 10s to <200ms
• Developed a custom analytics platform tracking purchases and promotions for a novel QR-code-based payment system primarily used by food vendors in Boston

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• RSpec
• PostgreSQL
• Heroku
• BackboneJS
• CoffeeScript
• Redis
• MongoDB
• RabbitMQ

Consulting Engagements

• Developed a documentation system for General Motors built in Ruby on Rails
• Developed a greenfield Ruby on Rails application managing a product inventory and PDF product catalog with PrinceXML

Technologies

• Ruby/Rails
• Test::Unit
• RSpec
• MySQL
• Capistrano
• jQuery

• Developed multiple internal and customer-facing web applications using ASP, ASP.net, and C#

Technologies

• ASP
• ASP.net
• C#
• SQL Server/T-SQL
• XSLT

• Developed a battlefield tool written in Ruby on Rails during a combat deployment outside Fallujah, Iraq, to increase detention likelihood and duration of enemy combatants