> 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
1/23 - Current

As an engineer on the container platform team, I designed and built tooling, infrastructure, and UX empowering devs to manage services and environments. Focus areas include Docker, Javascript/Typescript monorepo development, Kubernetes, Kubeflow Pipelines, Python, and Java.

Principal Engineering Manager

Microsoft
9/21 - 1/23

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). Hosted tech talks about Typescript and React.

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
9/20 - 9/21

Lead engineer on Bot Framework Typescript library, a ~30 NPM package monorepo with ~60,000 downloads/week. Dramatically reduced CI test duration (and flakes) and added tooling (yarn workspaces) and automation (Mocha, eslint, prettier, Github Actions) for code quality.

Founding Engineer

COVID Trace
4/20 - 8/20

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

Senior Software Engineer

ngrok
4/20 - 8/20

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

Principal Consultant

Standard Labs
1/18 - 3/20

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

Other Experience

Founding Engineer

FanFund5/17 - 3/18

Site Reliability Engineer

Uber5/16 - 3/17

Software Engineer

Moz1/13 - 5/16

> Education

B.S., Computer Science

Seattle University6/13

B.A., Humanities

Seattle University6/13