# Joshua Howard > Front End Engineer at Amazon Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuahoward I am a software engineer with a passion for developing aesthetically pleasing, highly-engaging user experiences. My specialty lies in building modular, full-stack JavaScript applications. React, Node.js, and GraphQL are some of my favorite technologies. Let's talk about SpaceX and find the best brunch spots in NYC. https://joshuahoward.tech ## Work Experience ### Front End Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Front End Engineer I @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Reactime (Open Source Product) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States • Optimized a recursive React Fiber tree traversal algorithm in order to accurately capture memoizedState for all stateful Fiber Nodes and enable time travel state debugging • Used Acorn-JSX to parse React functional components’ JSX, generating an abstract syntax tree suitable to traverse in order to locate and store all declared useState hook variables • Designed Next.js, React Concurrent Mode / Suspense, and Context API testing sandboxes served by Node.js / Express to ensure the timeline of state snapshots is recorded correctly • Defined Typescript interfaces and types necessary for static type checking and IntelliSense alerts, accelerating team workflows by simplifying debugging and enhancing scalability • Developed Jest and Puppeteer tests that enable accelerated team development cycles by preventing compatibility regression as new product features are built and deployed • Leveraged D3.js for an interactive state timeline visualization by using its modules to compute SVG path attributes enabling React to render dynamic vector shapes to the DOM • Standardized the Travis CI / Github continuous integration workflow to automatically run unit and end-to-end tests to prevent bugs from being introduced into production code • Reactime has been nominated for the Productivity Booster award at React Open Source Awards 2020 in Amsterdam ### Founder and Lead Engineer @ Moresocial Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater New York City Area • Launched two event discovery platforms with a talented team of 3 veterans of NYC’s tech startup community • Designed Adobe XD / Sketch wireframes and prototypes to create intuitive user experiences before devising application architecture, writing code, and iterating based on user feedback • Employed React and React Router while building modularized SPAs leveraging dynamic re-rendering and unidirectional data flow to ensure code maintainability and extensibility • Implemented Ruby on Rails REST API models, HAML views, controllers, and serializers to dynamically query a PostgreSQL database and retrieve data requested via URL slugs • Incorporated JWTs and Bcrypt’s one-way hashing algorithm to secure routes and API endpoints with a login system that is protected against intruders and rainbow table attacks • Crafted an interactive React Native UI animation with variable states corresponding to the user’s touch position and movement in order to create an engaging user micro-interaction ### Software Engineer @ Open Source Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States React Build Tools | Platform for Creating Software Engineering Tutorials • Introduced Redux to inject stateful logic into functional component props and prevent prop-drilling in deeply nested components, while preventing unnecessary child component re-renders, ensuring a single source of truth, and enabling Redux DevTools for debugging • Containerized the application with Docker and configured its services with Docker Compose to enable rapid, reliable deployment while ensuring a consistent application runtime environment that helps streamline continuous integration and deployment • Integrated Webpack and Babel to generate browser-compatible ES5 by transpiling ES6+ and JSX syntax while simultaneously adding workflow-accelerating hot module reloading, minifying the codebase to reduce overall bundle size, and reducing application load times joshuahoward.tech | Personal Website • Utilized the React-Spring physics animation library while leveraging React hooks, CSS3 keyframes, HTML5’s canvas element, function memoization, and JavaScript’s requestAnimationFrame method to create performant, highly-interactive animations Should I Live Here | Visualizer for NYC’s Open Data • Generated a custom Mapbox GL heatmap to enhance the application’s user interface by parsing NYC’s open data into GeoJSON data and layering images and vector shapes StudyCode | Tool for Creating Personal Study Guides • Created a GraphQL / Express API by refactoring legacy REST endpoints and writing customized schemas and asynchronous PostgreSQL queries to allow frontend developers to define data structures in order to reduce client-side latency and prevent over-fetching ### Aviation Consulting Analyst @ ICF Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | New York, NY • Performed market analysis and crafted strategies for diverse airline, airport, and transportation authority clients in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia • Wrote and executed SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate relational data used for financial data modeling and decision making as well as supply and demand forecasting • Designed PowerPoint presentations while employing Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for custom graphics and vector drawings ### Incoming Aviation Consulting Analyst @ ICF Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, NY ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of New Haven Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | West Haven, CT • Collected, interpreted, and summarized data in support of Healthcare Administration program manuscripts, projects, and presentations ### Aviation Consulting Intern @ ICF International Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ann Arbor, MI • Identified high-growth opportunities for an aeronautical school desiring to expand internationally • Led a Microsoft Access project that leveraged relational database capabilities to create an efficiency-enhancing tool for handling ICF’s intellectual property • Performed in-depth research and analysis in support of two due diligence projects for aircraft repair companies (MRO) • Supported timely completion of projects requiring data modeling, forecasting, and PowerPoint design skills ### Resident Assistant @ University of New Haven Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | West Haven, CT • Managed up to 62 diverse students and built a positive living environment through active student engagement ### Product Management Intern @ Motorola Solutions Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Holtsville, NY • Resolved data errors for 15,000+ SKUs to allow for accurate analysis of product attach rates • Led a cross-functional team that produced universal standards which reduced product development costs • Improved marketing and public perception by creating and updating 30+ web pages, 6 product guides, and 3 marketing bulletins leveraging best practices for effective external communication • Assisted in constructing the Quarterly Business Review report by analyzing data and performance models ### Graduate of Marine Corps Officer Candidate School Platoon Leaders Class (PLC) Juniors @ United States Marine Corps Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Quantico, VA • Led teams of 4-50 members through exceptionally stressful environments and problem-solving scenarios • Aviation Selection Test Battery (ASTB) score: 7/9/8 (Top 3% of pilot candidates) ## Education ### Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of New Haven ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics University of New Haven ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-howard - Portfolio: https://joshuahoward.tech - GitHub: https://github.com/Joshua-Howard - Portfolio: https://angel.co/joshuahoward --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshuahoward JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshuahoward/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29