Josh Habdas

Josh Habdas

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ABOUT ME
UI-UX / WebOps / SRE / React / TypeScript / JavaScript
UI-UX / WebOps / SRE / React / TypeScript / JavaScript

Self-driven software engineer with over 10 years full-time professional experience with startups and fortune 500s plus 5 years remote contract experience. I'm skilled in UI/UX and DevOps, and building sustainable systems though the creative and ethical application of open source technology.

Developer blog: https://vhs.codeberg.page

English
Singapore (+08:00)
Joined October 2015
EXPERTISE
6 years experience
I've been building static sites for fun and profit since Dreamweaver 3 was released. In 2013 I started learning and using Jekyll, and hav...
I've been building static sites for fun and profit since Dreamweaver 3 was released. In 2013 I started learning and using Jekyll, and have relationships with many of their core developent team. I'm very fast at creating static sites and can create them pixel-perfect from the ground up starting with nothing more than a PDF design comp. Looking for something more scalable, I've created the most popular self-hosted Hugo theme and released it under the GPL.
Go (Golang)JekyllRubyHugoHubSpotSiteleafCloudcannonForestryCloud HostingLiquid
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10 years experience
I tought myself HTML starting with version 2 and am a whiz with semantic markup, having coded HTML in a personal and professional capacit...
I tought myself HTML starting with version 2 and am a whiz with semantic markup, having coded HTML in a personal and professional capacity for quite some time now. CSS has played a major role in all work since, and I'm familiar with both obscure and mainstream layout techniques, development patterns such as BEM and SMCSS and can write CSS in Sass, Less and Stylus.
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10 years experience | 3 endorsements
Picked up my first JavaScript book at the age of 23 to teach myself how to create a booking inquiry form for a vacation rentals website I...
Picked up my first JavaScript book at the age of 23 to teach myself how to create a booking inquiry form for a vacation rentals website I contracted as a young freelancer. Since then I've had thousands of hours of professional experience coding JavaScript of all kinds.
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8 years experience
I have experience building WordPress sites personally and as a freelancer. It's not something I do every day but I am a fan of PHP and ha...
I have experience building WordPress sites personally and as a freelancer. It's not something I do every day but I am a fan of PHP and have developed my own WordPress performane plug-in after speaking about WordPress at WordCamp Ubud 2017.
CMSPhoto EditingContent writing
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CMSPhoto EditingContent writing
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7 years experience
I've well versed in how to optimize any website to both increase crawl frequency but also to place it near the top of search on every maj...
I've well versed in how to optimize any website to both increase crawl frequency but also to place it near the top of search on every major search engine outside Baidu. I can show you with numbers how I took a site with no traffic up to 70K hits per month using good SEO practices and how I can get a page listed on the first page of DuckDuckGo without any black hat in less than 2 days for 2-3 word keyphrases.
3 years experience
I've been self-hosting my own code for more than a year after gaining sufficient knowledge of how to stand-up and administer my own Linux...
I've been self-hosting my own code for more than a year after gaining sufficient knowledge of how to stand-up and administer my own Linux boxes on VPSs with first Digital Ocean and then later using CloudFlare and Lightsail.
6 years experience
I've been using node as a tool to manage dependencies and build scalable applications with fast development pipelines to deliver sooner w...
I've been using node as a tool to manage dependencies and build scalable applications with fast development pipelines to deliver sooner with less bugs. I've got a grip on dozens of libraries and and able to use NPM to piece together an entire development pipeline from scratch.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0
(9 reviews)
Matteo Minoli
Matteo Minoli
December 2020
Amazing!
Ryan Hayden
Ryan Hayden
June 2016
Josh was very helpful. He knows his stuff.
David Gonen
David Gonen
June 2016
Josh is an excellent mentor, very patient and explains concepts really well. He helped me make a lot of progress (and fix several issues) on a react-web & react-native application. Great mentor, highly recommended!
Antonio Santoni
Antonio Santoni
October 2015
Great to work with, very easy to talk to and knowledgeable. Awesome follow up!
EMPLOYMENTS
Self-employed
Me
2016-03-01-Present
Participated under NDA in the development of 5-6 different start-ups and other client work fielding projects ranging from front-end to Ku...
Participated under NDA in the development of 5-6 different start-ups and other client work fielding projects ranging from front-end to Kubernetes, React Native to Bash scripting, distributed-ledger and more.
Bash
Redis
Docker
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Bash
Redis
Docker
React
Kubernetes
React Native
PHP 7
Vue.js
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Senior Software Engineer
Technology Advice
2015-08-01-2016-03-01
Remote placement from Chicago to Nashville. Worked with product team, UI and back-end developers to built out new back-office application...
Remote placement from Chicago to Nashville. Worked with product team, UI and back-end developers to built out new back-office application to power the organizations main sales activities. Trained junior developers while helping built and migrate static sites to AWS and stretched into API development using a Node.js back-end.
Node.js
Git
WordPress
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Node.js
Git
WordPress
Jekyll
Docker
React
Webpack
Redux
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Lead Front-End Developer
Trunk Club
2013-01-01-2014-11-01
Joined a team of 8 engineers, built front-end SPA used to create 8 back-office applications within the company. Built e-commerce front-en...
Joined a team of 8 engineers, built front-end SPA used to create 8 back-office applications within the company. Built e-commerce front-end for Sales department used by hundreds of reps daily and also built cycle counting system with cross-platform front-end and Bluetooth scanner helping enable the company move into a larger warehouse as it was expanding. Assisted in hiring process to increase the size of the tech team until the company was acquired for 325M by Nordstrom.
HTML/CSS
Backbone.js
Continuous Integration
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HTML/CSS
Backbone.js
Continuous Integration
Kanban
JavaScript
Webpack
Test Automation
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PROJECTS
After DarkView Project
2018
Retro dark theme for Hugo with over 50K downloads. Includes BPG image support using Wasm.
Retro dark theme for Hugo with over 50K downloads. Includes BPG image support using Wasm.
HTML5
Bash
CSS3
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HTML5
Bash
CSS3
npm
Docker
JavaScript
Hugo
GNU/Linux
WebAssembly
Vue.js
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Lumpen RadioView Project
2015
React Native app for WLPN 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio Chicago. Broadcasted live for 4 years.
React Native app for WLPN 105.5 FM Lumpen Radio Chicago. Broadcasted live for 4 years.
Objective-C
Webpack
React Native
Objective-C
Webpack
React Native