About Me
6 years experience
Joshua Owens
Fullstack Engineer
JavaScript Master
Tinder
Fullstack Engineer 3
May 2022 – Present
- Updated Tinder Web’s onboarding flow with A/B tests to improve accessibility and retention across 10M+ users
- Built a lightweight web app using vanilla JavaScript, allowing users to access their user data, even for users with low or intermittent bandwidth
- Integrated and managed a CMS platform solution for static in-app content, automating localization workflows, saving 100s of developer hours per month, and empowering stakeholders to control content
- Architected and built ban screens and a ban appeal center using web views in the native Tinder app to process thousands of ban appeals daily
- Automated Protobuf tooling, eliminating manual code generation and improving developer velocity by 10% when working with Protobuf APIs on Web App

General Skills
- Javascript
- Typescript
- Ruby
- Rust
- Jira Project Management
- GitHub Actions
- Design Patterns
- Functional Programming
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Data-Oriented Design
- Git Version Control
Frontend Skills
- Typescript
- React
- Redux
- Redux Sagas
- Async/Await
- Webpack
- Jest
- Progressive Web Apps
- Service workers
- IndexedDB
- Notifications API
- Web Assembly With Rust
- Web Game Development
- Canvas
Backend Skills
- AWS Elastic BeanStalk
- Redis
- REST API Development
- Docker
- Distributed Systems Patterns
- GraphQL
- MySQL
- Next.Js
- Express
- Ruby on Rails
- Rocket.rs