> Josh Gummersall

Motivated by difficult technical problems, customer-focused teams, and a culture of documentation and code review. Thrives in areas of ambiguity using first principles thinking and leading by example.

> Skills

> Experience

Principal Software Engineer

Zillow
Jan 2023 - Current

As technical lead of the Javascript Platform, I manage a roadmap integrating requirements from partner teams, mentor and grow the engineering team, and deliver high-value cross-product solutions. Technologies include Next.js, React, React Query, and Docker. Some highlights include bundle (Webpack) and CI (Jenkins) optimization, as well as Java-to-Typescript code generation tooling.

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023

Led a team of engineers working on SaaS chatbot product built with React, Redux, Blazor and Web Assembly. Made direct contributions to monorepo bundling (Webpack), testing (Jest), and other shared tooling (eslint, prettier). Gave tech talks aboutTypescript and React.

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021

Lead engineer on Bot Framework Typescript library, a 20+ NPM package monorepo with 100,000+ weekly downloads. Dramatically reduced CI test duration (and flakes) and added tooling (yarn workspaces) and automation (Mocha, eslint, prettier, Github Actions) for code quality.

Senior Software Engineer

ngrok
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020

Lead engineer on infrastructure and developer tooling team. Wrote several developer tools and contributed to services (Golang, Rust, and Python).

Founding Engineer

COVID Trace
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020

Built initial backend (Terraform, Google Cloud Platform) and mobile app (Dart, Flutter) for contact tracing service. Featured in Geekwire, CNBC, and others.

Principal Consultant

Standard Labs
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020

Developed web apps and services (React, Redux, Golang) deployed on Kubernetes (Terraform, Google Cloud Platform).

Founding Engineer

FanFundMay 2017 - Mar 2018

SRE: Storage

UberMay 2016 - Mar 2017

Software Engineer

MozJan 2013 - May 2016

> Education

B.S., Computer Science

Seattle UniversityGraduated June 2013

B.A., Humanities

Seattle UniversityGraduated June 2013