I'm Josh

Front End Software Developer

years young, upcoming ping pong athlete, karaoke enthusiast.

Know Me Better

Hey, this is me.

Currently on a small break from coding to focus on home improvement projects and taking a mental break. Outside of work, I like to play ping pong, video games, anime, edit anime music videos and post them on YouTube. Besides my career and hobbies, I am also looking for a new volunteer opportunity in teaching code.

Why Juggernaut?

From X-Men Wiki:

"Once he begins to advance in a certain direction, it is virtually impossible to halt his movement. Some obstacles, such as many tons of rocks and plasma-discharge cannons, have slowed his pace, but can't stop him. The only known examples of him being stopped involve physical force with mystical involvement, which is Juggernaut's sole weakness."

So Why Me?

I have spent a long time working on problems for different companies, industries, bosses, and other fellow employees. The statement above is a reflection of my track record. There has yet to be a problem that I could not solve. It is just a matter of resources, priority, and value.

Don't let my years of experience fool you. I am still learning, innovating, and improving my skills as a front end developer. If you are looking for an engineer who takes pride in their work, isnt afraid to ask questions or make mistakes, and communicates clearly and honestly. I am your guy.

Contact Details

My Latest Work

My goal is to look back and never be satisfied with my work. There is always room for improvement.

Marquee Partners, LLC

Search Flix

3hr Chart App

Breaking Ohms

My Resume

I will only ask someone to do something I would be willing to do or have already done.

My Education
2006 - 2012

2006 - 2012

Bachelors Degree - University of Houston - Hilton College

Through the niche business of hospitality, I have learned many soft skills ranging from leadership, management, customer service, and even brand development.

This degree was pursued as both a full-time student and a full-time worker in the industry.

Work Experience
2011 - 2022

2021-2022

Sofware Engineer - Junglescout

    Responsibilities:
  • Developed and maintained projects using Ruby on Rails, Node, ReactJS, Postgres, Docker, and AWS CDK.
  • Created Technical Design Docs for new admin features, modernizing pages to use hooks vs class components, and new dashboards for amazon sellers
  • Onboarded new engineers by helping them through installation, guiding them through all the different repos, and pair programming on small tickets to help build confidence and context.
  • Helped organize and lead scrum ceremonies. Addressed any major UI/UX issues with product managers, designers, and tech leads across multiple teams.
  • Introduced responsive web designs to the app and played an important role in design meetings to improve existing workflows and create new reusable components.
2021-2021

Senior Frontend Engineer - GoExpedi

    Responsibilities:
  • Created an MVP for a 3d configurator shopping experience for the oil and gas industry. High visibility work under tight deadlines with successful cooperation among different technical teams.
  • Used React, Redux, Typescript, Sketchfab, Docker, Python, Jinja to create an ecosystem of configurators each with unique business logic dependent on the type of product (mud pump, valve, etc…)
  • Worked with UX designers, Project Managers, and worked as a bilingual ambassador to an international team from Mexico to bring urgent value to the company with rotating priorities and flexibility
  • In a short amount of time, I have integrated and contributed to 3 different apps, volunteered to start and lead estimation meetings to improve the quality of our JIRA tickets and acceptance criteria, and have led interviews to seek out new candidates.
2020-2021

Senior Web Developer - Adcetera

    Responsibilities:
  • Created customer facing websites for LG, AIG, HP and other third party clients
  • Used React, Redux, MaterialUI, ThreeJS to create a 3d web app that is offline capable, has push notifications, and can be saved as an app in both mobile and desktop browsers. The 3d asset is over 130MB and can be served from the user’s disk space for faster loads after initial download.
  • Worked alongside designers, 3d motion artists, and writers (legal) to create marketing websites that are ADA compliant, fast loading, and gracefully responsive.
  • Advertising tracking and Dashboard creation with Google Tag Manager to track user behavior and Google Data Studios to visualize advertising efforts, results, and cost pacing.
2018-2020

Software Engineer - JP Morgan

    Responsibilities:
  • Helped create 3 web apps that lived in an Openfin desktop ecosystem.
  • Used React, Redux, MaterialUI, Jest to create CRM tools that adhered to ADA compliance and are uniform with the company’s design philosophies.
    • Worked alongside an international team of engineers in an agile environment. Would have end to end conversations to dictate data models, naming conventions, and consumption of the API endpoints.
  • Outside of the engineering team, had to interact with the product team, UX design team, and run demos for upper management.
    • In the absence of the team lead, I stepped up to run meetings, give updates, ensure work completion, complete code reviews, help train interns, and manage the code deployments via a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Got involved with other teams projects, one which we had to refactor due to its age and defective performance, so we built it from the ground up to work with no runtime exceptions and fit our business needs.
2017-2018

Customer Success Engineer - Meshify

    Responsibilities:
  • Consulted with third party clients over the design and implementation of their custom dashboards.
  • Using Riot.js, Tachyons, Websockets , and Highcharts to create a variety of templates that helps monitor real-time data driven by business logic and organized work flows.
  • Constructed a library of reusable components to help facilitate and accelerate the completion of future projects.
  • Created a Virtual Node Constructor which allows both developers or end users to build their own dashboard without having to use code. (Wordpress style)
  • Integrated a new design concept with a grid based architecture to give our site a more modern and consistent look in both desktop and mobile views.
  • Transported clients from our legacy platform (Backbone.js) to our Carbon platform.
  • Reigning Ping Pong champ,
2017-2017

UI/UX Web Developer (Contract)

    Responsibilities:
  • Primarily tasked with the design and implementation of our company’s R&D projects while providing consultation to other project teams.
  • Using React, Redux, Immutable.js, and highcharts to create a web app that helps monitor real-time data in a dynamic chart which is driven by user interaction.
  • Constructed a reusable component that allows the user to write custom algorithms which supports python syntax highlighting and variable metrics relevant to the environment the component is in.
  • Improved on the design of a subquery tool, leveraging Material UI components.
2016-2017

Software Engineer - haulme (Full-Time)

    Responsibilities:
  • Using React.js, Google Maps API, Kendo UI framework, and our company's API, constructed a back-facing admin page to emulate a user’s experience, provide admin functions, and analytic feedback.
  • Crafted unit tests using Mocha and Chai for the backend.
  • Improved the design of the customer facing web page that is made in Angular.js.
  • Assisted in developing functionality in our back-end using Node.js with the goal of becoming more proficient in data structures and tables.
  • Managing our marketing site via Wordpress, surveys via surveymonkey.com, and mailing lists via mailchimp.com.
2016-2017

Instructor - Code Stream Studios (Part-Time)

    Responsibilities:
  • Joined an educational initiative for high school students that want to learn how to code.
  • Created online videos and helped shape a curriculum for students to learn how to write HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
  • Class focuses on professional design concepts, reading layouts, and recreating popular websites.
  • Known as the go-to guy for all things Javascript, as a coach for fellow teachers and a resource for students in other classes.
2016

Front-End Software Developer in Training - The Iron Yard

    Accomplishments:
  • Created responsive apps ranging from job forms to world-wide weather forecasts.
  • Single page and multi-view applications with transferable data.
  • Created clones of popular sites such as Etsy and Github from scratch while reading from their live databases by working with their API’s and representing that data in my own app.
  • My final project is Picture Perfect: a hybrid web/mobile app that has been described as Google Maps meets Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. It creates a community tool for image requests both locally and world-wide.
2011 - 2015

Intelligence Analyst - U.S. Army

    Responsibilities:
  • Trained and collaborated with teams of linguists to aid in the analytic process of creating reports and executing multiple overlapping deadlines.
  • Reviewed reports and searched for format and grammatical errors.
  • Developed various project folders with subfolders for each team.
  • Planned and presented various project meetings proposing actions in response to collections of data in forms of reports, charts, and graphs.
  • Oversaw the accountability, security, and maintenance of over $150,000 of equipment.

Skills & Expertise

Luck is a one-time event. Skill is the controlled repetition of luck.

HTML5 + CSS3

Javascript

React

Redux

Bootstrap

Three JS

Contact Me

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Hello

Josh Matos

josuematos87@gmail.com

832-419-9467