Joshua Kovach

I've been a Ruby on Rails developer for 9 years, working on projects large and small. I've developed a number of RESTful APIs, usually for mobile applications. I'm an open-source contributor, a testing enthusiast, and happy to help people break through to new levels of expertise.

I've been an Android developer for about 8 years, having developed a number of applications large and small. Testing with JUnit, Robolectric, and Espresso. Experience with RxJava, Retrofit, Dagger2, Jetpack (new Android Architecture Components), Room, etc. I still work with Java, but have been focused on Kotlin for the past 4 years.

I've been working with Kotlin on Android for 4 years, and have used it for testing and widely used production applications.

I've been using Git for a long time. I'm a big fan, and very comfortable with rebases.

Worked on many iOS apps when Objective-C was still big. Developed several apps with Swift. I like Swift better.

Testing is one of the best ways to learn a new language, explore capabilities, or just increase your confidence in your code. Dependency injection, mocking, and design patterns are all important aspects of writing testable code. I've been using test-driven development on projects across multiple platforms since I began writing software professionally, and would consider myself a testing evangelist. I can help you write tests, learn how to design code so you can test it, and figure out how to identify testing boundaries.