Resume

Joshua Hutt

Executive Summary

Full-stack engineer and team lead with 12 years building web, mobile, and AI apps in React, TypeScript, and Node.js. Delivered on dozens of high-visibility products and tools, including: an AI financial research tool (Capital Group, 2024), an AI-driven chat platform (LivePerson, 2018), a serverless GraphQL development framework (AWS, 2022), a data and analytics pipeline (Coinstar, 2018), a 3D asset management pipeline (Lowe’s, 2021), and multiple interactive data visualizations (Adrianople Group, 2024).

Summary of Qualifications

  • Full-stack JavaScript / TypeScript application development with Next.js (Node.js & React), React Native, and Electron
  • Multi-cloud architecture with AWS (ECS/EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Route 53), GCP (GKE, GCS, Cloud SQL)
  • SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
  • Monitoring, analytics and metrics with Elasticsearch (ELK)
  • Multi-vendor AI implementation (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc)
  • User-centered UI/UX research, design, and development
  • Leadership experience with Agile and Scrum teams
  • Teaching experience in technical and non-technical fields
  • Experience with C#, Java, and Python
  • Mandarin Chinese

Relevant Experience

Principal Software Engineer at Hutt LLC

1/2023 – Present

  • Guitar Center – Architected a Node.js platform to support ~50,000 lessons subscriptions, unifying fragmented POS, e-commerce, and lessons data into a reliable system of record and enabling accurate sales attribution, legally required one-click cancellations, and student self-service during a major growth initiative.
  • Capital Group – Rebuilt an internal ChatGPT-style research assistant from React prototype with Vue, delivering source transparency and feedback features to increase user trust and streamline the model training cycle, supported successful beta adoption by ~25 analysts, and enabled future rollout to hundreds of researchers..
  • Adrianople Group – Designed a highly interactive, high-performance research map framework in 6 weeks and delivered three separate maps to highlight research datasets, and collaborated on a flagship visualization to improved data fluency, directly supported marketing, partnerships, and an exclusive map acquisition by a major NGO.
  • IInstitute for Legislative Analysis – Built a white-label legislative vote scoring platform to process and score ~500,000 votes per year, taking the organization from zero to production in <3 months and enabling 9 partner organizations to publish and maintain their own public scorecards with minimal engineering overhead.
  • Kunai – Led a small team to rescue and deliver a stalled Sanity/Gatsby/React marketing site, shipping 13+ unique page frameworks and 25+ reusable components on schedule while restoring momentum, confidence, and stakeholder trust.
  • West Coast NFT – Built a high-fidelity, consumer-ready NFT onboarding and creation experience in 2 months, enabling rapid real-world validation of a mass-market strategy, saving an estimated 4+ months of engineering effort before a decisive pivot.
  • AWS Professional Services – Designed security-first authentication and authorization primitives for a federated GraphQL platform, delivering core scaffolding for Woot’s monolith-to-microservices migration in 3 months.

Principal Software Engineer at SamCart

6/2022 – 12/2022

  • Led the design and development of Checkouts 2.0, a blazing fast checkout experience built with Next.js, GraphQL, and Node.js.
  • Built the next-generation administrative interface for SamCart Sellers, using Next.js, GraphQL, Node.js, Golang and PHP.
  • Engaged developers in cross-team discussions and workshops focused on collaboratively analyzing and improving the process and practices of software development at SamCart, at the individual and team levels.

Lead Software Engineer at Lowe’s Innovation Labs

5/2020 – 11/2021

  • Led a team of five (5) developers develop a 3D asset scanning pipeline management tool to support a key Lowe’s initiative to produce high-resolution 3D models to modernize the catalog on Lowes.com, the Lowe’s app, and other sites.
  • Designed and implemented prototypes for a connected-home data platform for integration with third-party providers and broad consumption by a diverse group of stakeholders, including homeowners, Lowe’s Pros, big brands, and market analysts.
  • Designed, developed, and deployed a single backend platform in Node.js, to seamlessly integrate a suite of 3D design applications to share and enable progressive enhancement of models and scenes as they progress through the workflow.
  • Drove system design and architecture of the 3D asset management tool with key meetings, schema docs, and diagrams.
  • Integrated Lowe’s ForgeRock auth strategy to the Labs, improving the in-store login process for Labs apps by store associates.

Software Development Engineer III at LivePerson

8/2018 – 5/2020

  • Drove the implementation of the CEO’s self-service vision for the platform by leading the efforts for an API Standardization program and by delivering the company’s first zero-touch, trial-to-paid upgrade and onboarding experience for new accounts.
  • Prototyped, architected, built, and shipped Maven – an AI and automation platform – driving big wins for customers, including a multi-service implementation of AI Assist, an AI tool to identify and execute the “next best action” for any customer inquiry.
  • Introduced the Data Science team to the ELK stack, building an initial design of a key feature which quickly became its own product, called Zeitgeist, giving brands deep and far-reaching insight into the behavior and needs of their customers.
  • Built and shipped a “Context Service” at a record pace, with React, Node.js, Couchbase, and Kubernetes, to help fuel the AI engine behind Maven, and to be used by other teams throughout the company to enhance their products and services.
  • Traveled to the Israel offices for knowledge transfer with the platform and infrastructure teams, developed a transition plan for the core messaging platform, and drove technical planning sessions for the modernization efforts of a critical legacy service.
  • Spearheaded developer advocacy and platform improvements through working sessions, standards, and documentation.
  • Coordinated an internal Hackathon for the Seattle office that led to multiple new projects that the business incorporated.
  • Won “most developer-centric” for a hackathon project that transforms how consumers engage with brands via shared context.
  • Recruited, interviewed, and hired the first round of new developers for most of the new teams in the Seattle office.

Senior Software Developer at Elevāt

11/2017 – 4/2018

  • Worked with four developers to scale and enhance a real-time IoT data platform built on AWS, with Node.js and AngularJS.
  • Built a drop-in replacement for the AWS IoT Device Shadow service to dramatically improve performance and load time using a Redis cluster, offering granular control over data seeding and caching on the signal, device, and organization levels.
  • Evaluated and improved the performance of the Redis-based solution with timing benchmarks for the endpoints and methods.
  • Built a rules engine for real-time equipment monitoring, improving observability and enabling preventative maintenance.
  • Migrated unit tests to use Jest, improving speed and reliability, and making writing and maintenance easier for the developers.

Senior Software Developer at Pushpay

2/2017 – 8/2017

  • Joined as the first US developer on Pushpay’s mobile content management platform, interfacing with a team of developers based out of the New Zealand headquarters to maintain and enhance the platform, with Node.js, React, and React Native.
  • Integrated metrics collection into the platform, using StatsD and Librato, providing insight into customer usage and performance, improving customer support and empowering the development team to resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Automated screenshot collection for platform apps, saving hours of repetitive work and speeding up customer onboarding.

Senior Software Developer at Hutt LLC

1/2016 – 12/2016

  • Coinstar – Turned data into alerts, actionable insights, business reports, using a Node.js ETL and Elasticsearch.
  • Wellsaid Labs – Integrated Auth0 and Stripe, enabling self-service user sign-up and upgrade flows, in Node.js and React.
  • NexTravel – Built a hybrid app for their website, adding push notifications and persistent login with Cordova.
  • Uber – Prototyped apps for a day job dispatch marketplace, using Node.js, React, React Native, and Firebase.
  • CashMap – Built a dynamic, cross-platform personal finance app with in-app purchases, using React Native.
  • Image Marketing Pros – Designed and delivered a barcode logging app in one week, using Node.js and Cordova.
  • Galvanize – Delivered an introductory JavaScript class to ten students over the course of eight weeks.
  • Cadence – Redesigned their onboarding flow and landing page, and integrate Intercom into their site.
  • Apple Leisure Group – Designed and developed components and pages in AEM for over 200 marketing pages.
  • TrueBlue – Built a serverless integration for a third-party vendor, using Node.js, Lambda, and DynamoDB.

Education

University of Washington – Seattle, WA

March 2013

  • BA in International Studies (Minors in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics)
  • Coursework included: Java programming, technical communication, scientific computing, and contingent valuation surveys and environmental research in two of China’s most polluted cities.
  • Named on Dean’s List for outstanding study, both at the UW (2012) and at Sichuan University (2010).
  • Studied in Sichuan, China, traveled independently, and offered English classes in multiple cities (2008-10).
  • Worked in University Machine Shop (2010) and conducted Nanofluidics (2009-10) and Cilia experiments (2007-08).

Additional Skills

  • Enterprise software documentation
  • User-centered process documentation and training
  • Writing and publishing educational/training books
  • Experience with digital marketing
  • Experience with ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Source control with Git and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Adapting HTML5 content for legacy platforms (WebHelp, IE6)
  • MadCap MadPak Suite & MadCap Flare 10
  • Research, experimental design, and statistical analysis
  • Office 2013 Suite, Visio, Excel, Photoshop and Illustrator

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