Josh Kneale
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Josh is a self-taught engineer with a passion for learning and building high-quality full-stack products. He has extensive experience in implementing best practice patterns and designs throughout the full scope of an application, from code structure and deployments to testing, operations, security, and networking. Josh loves working with startups and tech-for-good projects and works as a freelancer to get exposure from many different tech stacks and methodologies.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
TypeScript, SQL, NoSQL, Node.js, Redis, Docker, Elasticsearch, Message Queues, WebSockets, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microservices
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed was the boosted cashout feature for the Kwiff apps, the first of its kind in the gaming industry.
Work Experience
Senior Back-end Engineer
GoDaddy
- Introduced a monorepo structure to ease the sharing of dependencies between planned microservices.
- Provided guidance regarding AWS migration plans, infrastructure best practices, scaling techniques, and smooth deployment process plans.
- Worked with the team to ship the percent-based pricing feature on the reseller product, using Jira as a task management tool.
Senior Engineer
Edge Esports Ltd
- Designed the rebuild of the platform from the ground up after a pivot in company direction in Q3 2020.
- Built an extensible payments infrastructure implementing both Stripe and Hyperwallet (Paypal). Allowing for multi-currency, global transactions, and a selection of subscriptions tiers available to end-users.
- Designed and built a generic stats aggregation infrastructure, able to store large sets of time series data. We integrated APIs of five social platforms and using the OAuth protocol we were able to pull data for the connected users on the Edge platform.
- Set up an extensible CI/CD pipeline using automated tests, Cypress to push a TDD/BDD process.
Lead Engineer
Kwiff (Eaton Gate Gaming)
- Rebuilt the company's custom sportsbook, implementing a multitude of microservices, databases, and communication patterns. Allowing scalability, extensibility, and multi-language and multi-currency support while keeping real-time odds available to clients.
- Created and implemented an algorithm to cater to the company's USP "kwiffing" (boosting of bets). This involved utilizing data from various parts of the infrastructure in a scalable way.
- Boosted the performance of the app to be able to handle concurrent traffic in the tens of thousands, from experiencing issues in the hundreds.
- Created a custom release pipeline utilizing Kubernetes to spin up dynamic development environments, React for an internal-facing UI, and automated Git branching to handle merging and rollbacks.
- Oversaw and integrated two real-time sportsbook providers, five casino game providers, one payment provider, and multiple smaller marketing providers.
- Created a shared library of reusable components to be used throughout the back-end microservices, installable via npm.
Software Engineer
Abbexa
- Created an in-house ticketing system for handling customer queries. Adapted to current technology to ensure the fastest delivery time during the startup phase of the company.
- Oversaw migration from on-premise servers to cloud hosting (Digital Ocean).
- Tracked and fixed bugs using Trello and a reporting tool.
Experience
TypeScript System Boilerplate
https://github.com/JoshKneale/typescript-boilerplateIf possible, I want to do the same projects in a variety of languages moving forward.
Timezones REST API
https://github.com/JoshKneale/timezones-rest-apiBoosted Cashout Feature
Skills
Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, GraphQL, HTML, Bash, PHP, CSS, Go, Python
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React, REST APIs, jQuery, Chai
Tools
GitHub, Amazon ElastiCache, Kibana, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), NPM, Jenkins, AWS ELB, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), Amazon CloudFront CDN, Amazon CloudWatch, Docker Compose, Bitbucket, AWS CloudFormation, Mocha
Paradigms
Testing, Unit Testing, Microservices, Load Testing, Data Science
Platforms
Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon EC2
Storage
NoSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQLCE, Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB, JSON
Other
Message Queues, WebSockets, Cloud, APIs, Back-end, Architecture, HTTP, HTTPS, GitHub Actions, Private NPM Modules, Remote Team Leadership, Amazon Route 53, SOAP, Lambda Functions, DocumentDB, Redis Clusters, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Direct Connect (DC), Amazon API Gateway, API Testing, Lint, Analytics, Server Sent Events (SSE)
Frameworks
Serverless Framework, gRPC, JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Express.js
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