Josh Huckabee

About Josh Huckabee

Experienced software engineer. I pride myself in creating quality, well tested software and enjoy working with forward thinking, nimble development teams.

Experience

1. Lead Software Engineer

   Edvera

   Oct 2023 — Present · Newburgh, NY, US

   Led technical strategy and execution for a software company specializing in regulatory and compliance in education- Managed and directed the development team to deliver high-quality software solutions- Performed major upgrade of the system from Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.7 to Rails 7.1 and Ruby 3.2- Upgraded and migrated the platform from snowflake AWS EC2 instances with RDS to Heroku with Heroku Postgres, simplifying deployments and reducing DevOps overhead- Transitioned the CI/CD pipeline from a 10 year old Jenkins setup to GitHub Actions, streamlining processes and eliminating the need for a dedicated Jenkins server- Revived and enhanced the automated test suite, increasing test coverage from 30% to 75%, significantly improving code reliability- Developed strategic plan for automating backend client configuration- Coordinated with product and customer success teams to address client issues as they arose.

Education

• Northern Arizona University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Information Systems, Web Technologies

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Html5
• Xhtml
• Mongodb
• Open Source
• Ruby on Rails
• Web Development
• Rest
• Ajax
• Json
• Software Development
• Css
• Drupal
• Linux
• Front-End
• Jquery
• Web Applications
• .net
• Lamp
• Ruby
• Nginx
• Php
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Git
• Postgresql
• Databases
• Node.js
• Subversion
• Mysql
• Apache
• Javascript
• Html 5