Josh Goldberg

Talks

• TSConf 2020

  Type System Game Engines

  Blog / Slides

• GGV Hacktoberfest 2020

  Introduction to Open Source

  Repository

• SWM Academy 2020

  Speedy Expo Apps with Persistent Redux State

  Slides / Video

• TSConf 2019

  Binary Arithmetic in the TypeScript Type System

  Blog / Slides / Video

Professional

Codecademy

2019-

I'm on our Web Platform team. We create and maintain tools used by frontend developers across the company, which involves everything from design systems to testing utilities to TypeScript conversions.

I previously toured our Learner Experience team, which focuses on improving the core user experience of our content authoring and consumption platforms, and our Growth team, responsible for improving user happiness & revenue growth via iterative experimentation.

Microsoft Sway

2016-2018

Through November 2018 worked on Sway, an education-focused Office app.
I focused on web client performance, front-end engineering systems, and static code analysis.

• Dynamics CRM

  2015

  Engineer in CRM sales vertical. My team focused on integrating Azure machine learning for sales insights in the desktop and mobile apps.

• Dynamics AX

  2014

  Intern on AX Internal Support. Created dynamic search aggregator for Lucene or proprietary databases to aggregate cross-source references.

• Schalk Lab

  2012-2013

  Set up neuroscience lab Drupal website and internal NAS, created a MySQL database management system in Matlab, and worked on BCI2000.

Projects

• TypeStat

  Converts JavaScript to TypeScript and TypeScript to better TypeScript with static analysis.

• tslint-to-eslint-config

  Converts TSLint configuration files to the closest possible ESLint configuration.

• mock-react-redux

  Mocks out Redux actions and selectors for clean React Jest tests.

• console-fail-test

  Gently fails test runs if the console was used during them.

• emojisplosion

  Blasts emoji like fireworks all up in your HTML page.

• GLS

  General Language Syntax: abstract syntax that compiles into common OOP languages.

• CS-GLS

  Uses the C# Roslyn compiler APIs to convert C# code to GLS syntax.

• TS-GLS

  Uses the TypeScript program APIs to convert TS code to GLS syntax.

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  FullScreenMario

  College project: an HTML5 remake of the original Super Mario Bros. It had the original 32 levels, a procedural map generator, and a level editor. Shut down by Nintendo's DMCA notices.

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  FullScreenPokemon

  Spiritual successor to FullScreenMario on my custom game engine. It'll have the original 151 and campaign, a procedural map generator, and a level editor. In progress.