Josh Fridstrom
Software Engineer- phone: +1 586 565 9010
- email: josh.fridstrom@gmail.com
I am a software developer with over seven years of professional experience. My passions are building quality software that both developer and customer are happy with, creating healthy and sustainable work environments, and writing software that makes the world a better place.
Experience
2016-08 - Present
Senior Software Developer and Team Lead
Fashion Cloud GmbH
Hamburg, Germany / 2016-08 - 2017-06
Remote / 2017-06 - Present
- Communicate daily with an international team through video calls, direct messaging, Github Issues/PRs/Discussions, and documentation on Notion pages
- Manage a team of software engineers to set objectives and meet deadlines
- Cultivate an environment in which my team members can grow and achieve more than what they thought they could
- Interview, evaluate, and hire quality engineers who fit and shape the engineering culture
- Monitor running systems in production and set up alerts in Datadog and AWS
- Designed and implemented much of Fashion Cloud's from-scratch API
- Developed patterns, best practices, and policies to make security easy to implement for a growing team
- Architected, designed, and implemented major systems for Fashion Cloud's data importing tools
2013-05 - 2019-08
Software Engineer
The Modtalk Group
/ Marquette, MI, USA
- Major contributor to the open source project Modtalk: a modern, modular Smalltalk implementation
- Presented papers on the project at multiple international conferences
2015-07 - 2016-08
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
/ Seattle, WA, USA
- Maintained Java web services for e-commerce facilitation
- Led the development of a distributed accounting-automation tool using Java and Amazon DynamoDB on AWS
Education
2011-08 - 2015-05
B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics
Northern Michigan University
/ Marquette, MI
- Computer Science Major
- Mathematics Major
- German Language Certification