Josh Sterling

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ABOUT ME

Full Stack Software Engineer dedicated to quality and maintainability.

Software is a delicate balance between art and science. It is not sufficient to solve every problem as quickly as possible. Nor is it effective to create wonderful, flexible, designs while ignoring business and customer needs. Software Engineering is about applying a proven, pragmatic, and reliable process that not only solves the problem at hand, but also minimizes the long-term cost of owning and maintaining that solution.

I also have a passion for optimizing user experience. User interactions need to be intuitive and efficient. Customers don't buy software because we make it. Customers buy software because it saves them time and money. By optimizing our user experience we can directly provide greater benefit to our customers.

Having a clean user experience does not stop at the customer interface. The code itself has a user experience. Any engineer can instantly tell the difference between spaghetti code and a well-factored solution that maps cleanly to the problem domain.

English

Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)

Joined February 2022

EXPERTISE

10 years experience

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6 years experience

Entity Framework Core

4 years experience

API

10 years experience

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SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

DiscordDkpBot

A custom bot for distributing loot via discord. Integrates with EQDkpPlus

YoutubeSpeedChanger

YouTube Speed Changer

JavaScript

Stack Overflow

828 Reputation

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Developer

Motor Vehicle Software Corporation

2016-10-01-Present

• Responsible for developing and maintaining back-end integration with DMV systems in several states. • Worked closely with DMV personnel...

• Responsible for developing and maintaining back-end integration with DMV systems in several states. • Worked closely with DMV personnel and product management to implement any custom logic required. • Prototyped and documented mission-critical systems used by multiple other teams. • Mentored other developers on writing maintainable, testable, reusable code.

Entity Framework

SOAP

Entity Framework

SOAP

Jenkins

Docker

.NET Core

RESTful API

Software Engineer

DataMotion, Inc.

2012-11-01-2016-10-01

Key part of a small team building and maintaining a secure messaging and data transfer platform. • Worked directly with product manageme...

Key part of a small team building and maintaining a secure messaging and data transfer platform. • Worked directly with product management to define requirements, specifications and risks. • Designed, implemented, and maintained core systems from the web browser to the database. • Worked closely with QA to resolve defects and improve overall quality. • Developed unit tests for existing and new features as they were created. • Directly supported the operations team to quickly troubleshoot and resolve issues. • Analyzed and resolved both specific and "less specific" performance issues.

SMTP

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Service

SMTP

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Service

ASP.NET

VB.NET

Programmer

Custom Software Solutions, Inc.

2009-12-01-2012-11-01

Worked as part of a small team of local and remote developers building solutions for home and auto insurance brokers and companies. • Wo...

Worked as part of a small team of local and remote developers building solutions for home and auto insurance brokers and companies. • Worked directly with management and customers to define requirements and specifications. • Designed, implemented, and maintained software from the web browser to the database. • Integrating 3rd party systems and data structures with our real-time insurance software. • Created and maintained both Unit and Automated System Integration test suits.

Microsoft SQL Server

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Service

Microsoft SQL Server

WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Service

ASP.NET MVC

VB.NET

PROJECTS

DiscordDkpBotView Project

Myself / Everquest Guild

2020

Discord bot for my Everquest guild. The guild had a bot built by a previous member that required updating but the person had moved on an...

Discord bot for my Everquest guild. The guild had a bot built by a previous member that required updating but the person had moved on and was no longer available. So I built a replacement for us to use.