# Josh Naso

> Software Engineer at The New York Times

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshnaso

As a frontend engineer at IBM, I design and implement front end elements for the Your-Career site, a platform that helps IBM employees grow their careers within the company. I use React functional components with React-Hooks, Redux, Redux-Saga, Jest, WebPack, and Travis to create user-friendly and responsive features, such as search, data selectors, and modular components. I also architected an NPM bundle that migrated over 20 React components to a typescript package, enabling reusability within multiple external IBM projects.

I am also the co-creator of ReactRPC, an open source library that simplifies the integration of gRPC-web, a faster and more efficient alternative to RESTful API, with React components. I contributed to the development of custom React Higher Order Functions (HOFs) that encapsulate gRPC calls into component properties, as well as the deployment of Docker to create a containerized environment. I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and experience with the tech community, and I have given several talks at SingleSprout and Build with Code NYC Tech Talk series on topics such as Angular, Vue, WebRTC, and containers. I am always eager to learn new technologies and apply them to solve real-world problems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ The New York Times
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Fullstack Engineer @ Chopra Global
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Implemented several front end technologies(Bright spot, React, Handlebars, Sass, etc) to develop new components for the Chopra Global website that increased user interactivity and enabled non-technical team members to easily modify the site.
- Migrated several components of the site to React in order to reduce code redundancy by 50% and streamline development.
- Utilized React Hooks to simplify managing state in components and made use of context objects to avoid prop drilling.
- Built several backends with Node/Express designing modular middleware/controller functions and focusing on reusability for future feature additions. 
- Incorporated AWS S3 buckets in order to increase availability of business forms and increase scalability of Chopra’s integration hub.
- Developed MySQL schemas and databases to take advantage of functions, stored procedures, and triggers that significantly reduced time for migrating and storing data.
- Leveraged Travis CI to automate the running of unit, integration and regression tests, to mitigate bugs, and prevent unintentional breaking changes.

### Software Engineer @ OSLabs
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
- Used React to develop UI for a SPA taking advantage of modular components to reduce code redundancy and ensure application scaling, thereby easing application debugging.
- Architected PostgreSQL ACID compliant database with strict schemas for storing user data to allow for dynamic data storing with object-relational functionality and to utilize PostgreSQL’s extensive data type library.
- Employed Webpack to create custom configurations for loading and translating .jsx files from React into readable JavaScript for the browser and to create a more maintainable and scalable codebase with bundled files. 
- Configured Google OAuth for application authentication and authorization to reduce user bounce rate by providing a secure and convenient login flow.
- Implemented React-Router to streamline multiple views in a Single Page Application (SPA), minimize server fetches, and improve the clarity of the code base.

### Software Engineer @ GP Games
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Winter Park, Florida, United States
• Architected an object-oriented multiplatform C++ framework that contained support for linear algebra, common physics algorithms, sockets, and multithreading.
• Served as SCRUM Master to assign tasks and to ensure that milestones were achieved timely.
• Leveraged PhysX for creation of rigid bodies and to easily apply torque and forces to all objects for realistic movement within each object’s local space
• Used HLSL to write various vertex, fragment, geometry, and compute shaders for implementation of lighting, particle effects, back-face culling, and render to texture effects.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshnaso
- Website: https://jnaso298.wixsite.com/joshnaso

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Last updated: 2026-03-23