Joshua Adams

Staff Engineer / Elixir Software Alchemist and Evangelist

New York, New York, United States

About

- Constantly searching for ways to augment my existing skill set - Enjoys providing advise to and collaborating with teams to improve development pipeline processes - Enjoys working with junior peers on ways to improve their Rails/Elixir developer chops, with an eye toward developing individualized training strategies - Passionate about brainstorming and implementing means of improving company culture - have instituted and coordinated multiple hack-a-thons - Continuously on the lookout for process improvement wins (of both the low-hanging fruit and long-term varieties) - Advocates for the adoption and continual adherence to a Test-Driven Development approach toward building software - Always curious to learn new / different ways of approaching solutions to problems Skills ==== - Advanced experience with Elixir - Advanced experience with the Phoenix Framework - Advanced experience with Ruby on Rails - Advanced experience with Ruby - Advanced experience with Git Graduated from Colgate University in 2012 with a major in Astronomy/Physics and a minor in Philosophy.

Experience

  • GridPoint (Full-time · 3 yrs 9 mos)
    • Technical Team Lead
      Oct 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Senior Software Engineer
      Oct 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Independent Elixir Consultant at Freelance
    Sep 2022 - Sep 2022 · 1 mo

  • Health and well-being at Career Break
    Jan 2022 - Aug 2022 · 8 mos

  • Annkissam (9 yrs)
    • Senior Ruby/Elixir Developer and Executive Manager
      Apr 2018 - Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Leading development on the FMS Enrollment Module, a project which revolutionizes the process pertaining to non-profit and for-profit organizations within the human services sector; optimizing report generation processes within a complex database structure; structuring database and system architecture while keeping vigilant with respect to possible compromises as they pertain to future system stability; coordinate day-to-day software development of junior developers.

    • Rails Developer and Senior Group Manager
      Jan 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

    • Rails Developer
      Jul 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Colgate University (3 yrs 10 mos)
    • Full Time Student
      Aug 2008 - May 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

    • Research Intern
      May 2011 - Aug 2011 · 4 mos

      Used chemical techniques to extract cosmogenic-nuclide bearing compounds from a meteorite in order to allow for an estimate of the terrestrial age of the specimen. Improved upon the nickel extraction technique previously employed by researchers.