Joshua Barnett

At the heart of Kodify are several high-traffic video streaming websites. As a member of the remote engineering team, I strive to improve and optimize the user experience for our customers across our stack.

• Sitewide redesign in React for all paid video streaming sites.
• New asset data schema and processing pipelines.
• Copyright infringement evidence collection system.
• Client fingerprinting and fraud prevention system.
• First party payment form.

At this innovative speech recognition start-up, I spent the majority of my time advancing the SaaS product and other incarnations of their core tech.

• Refactor of async speech recognition job system into modular components.
• Automated deployment of distributable packages and containerized microservices.
• Management and implementation of a company website redesign.
• Creating a web application to demo real-time speech recognition services.
• Designing and documenting the next iteration of the cloud REST API.
• Migration of SaaS dashboard to an Angular web application.
• Web API for the appliance product offering.

Day-to-day I was polishing and iterating on this business's foundational user testing platform.

• Migrating the user testing portal to an Angular web application.
• Gathering direct feedback from portal users to plan the next development cycle.
• Building a new checkout flow using Stripe.
• Updating and maintaining a Java-based screen recording application

As part of the e-learning team, we were developing tools for clients such as Tesco and M&S that employed premium video content featuring themed fictional scenarios amongst interactive quizzes. Think CSI but with educational food safety information scattered throughout.

• Developing web applications with heavy usage of video and audio.
• Packaging and deploying SCORM compliant learning modules.
• Encoding and optimizing assets for mobile and the web.

Known for games such as Candy Crush Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. During my time spent here, I was part of a small and agile skeleton team that maintained and produced new content for Pepper Panic Saga.

• Episodic content integration.
• Gameplay mechanic implementation.
• A/B test implementation.
• General bug fixing.
• Dynamic tutorial implementation.

A game studio focused on producing high-quality interactive gambling and betting games. Being my first full-time professional software developer job, I learned a lot about how to work effectively within a team consisting of experienced and talented developers.

• Marketing demos.
• Online bingo slots porting.
• Bet history framework.
• OpenBet and GTS server platform porting.
• Mobile assets build pipeline scripting.

In the pursuit of designing several games that attracted sponsorship by various online gaming portals, I honed my skills in creating graphics and animations in Flash and programming in ActionScript. This presented ample opportunities to develop as a self-taught programmer with a knack for problem-solving.

• EvoCannon (sponsored by GamesButler in 2008)
• Blocks (sponsored by MoFunZone in 2007)
• Toast (sponsored by MaxGames in 2006)