Josh Gachnang

The Una app is the React Native I led rewriting from native Swift and Java to support quicker feature development. The app is a moderated social network for people to help each other, with a focus on anonymity. It includes groups based on topics and interests. You can also chat with a recovery advocate in a totally private fashion to help you with whatever you want to improve in yourself.

HomeSafe is an app I developed on my own to text your mom/significant other/family/friends when you make it home safely. My mom always tells me to text her after I drive home, but I never do. So I built HomeSafe to automatically send her a text when I get where I'm going.

The app is cross-platform and built with React Native, React, Redux, and Firebase.

Rackspace OnMetal is a bare-metal cloud, allowing you to provision high-performance servers in minutes, as opposed to hours or days for traditional dedicated servers. The product was built on the open source OpenStack Ironic project and integrated with the Rackspace Cloud. I helped launch the first and second versions of the product, and open source our changes to Ironic.

Val is a chatbot platform forked from Hubot. It allows creating a user across messaging platforms, so you can interact with Val via Slack, SMS, Alexa, or any other communication platform. It has a simple plugin interface and a lot of plugins built in. It is based on Node.js for the back-end and uses Firebase for storage.

I built this app with React and Gatsby to showcase the articles I've written and provided a point of contact. It is hosted by Netlify.

An application for running on displays in a house pretending to be mirrors and displaying important information. It displays the date, time, calendar events, forecast information, pickup time for Uber, and public transit information in a very unobtrusive way. The app is built in React and interacts with the Val chatbot framework I wrote to get the back-end information.