About Me
6 years experience
Joshua Owens
Fullstack Engineer
JavaScript Master
Tinder
Fullstack Engineer 3
May 2022 – June 2025
- Designed and shipped a new account creation flow with multiple A/B tested iterations, improving onboarding conversion and retention across 10M+ users
- Designed and implemented a lightweight offline-capable web app using vanilla JS, enabling no or low-bandwidth access to user data worldwide. All 75M+ users have access to this feature
- Integrated and managed a CMS platform solution for static in-app content, automating localization workflows, saving 100s of developer hours per month, and streamlining stakeholders' content control
- Led the delivery of ban screen & appeal flow via embedded web views, unifying native and web UX with zero app-store redeploys
- Automated Protobuf API generation via custom tooling, increasing developer velocity and eliminating build-time inconsistencies
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