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About Me

6 years experience
JavaScript Expert

Joshua Owens


Fullstack Engineer

Fullstack Developer
Web Client Architect

Experience

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
Tinder

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