Josh Magness

Design System - Principal Architect

• Led the initative to create a scalable, cohesive, accessible UI framework.
• Created atomic components to be used across multiple products, standardizing interfaces and enforcing accessibility compliance.
• Documented usage and component guidelines, empowering cross-functional teams to implement and extend the system efficiently.
• Established a versioning and release process for the design system, ensuring backward compatibility.
• Reduced development time for new features by 50%

Engineering & UX Design Leadership

• Oversaw the software development lifecycle, from planning and architecture to deployment and maintenance, for many high-profile projects with a combined budget of $5 million.
• Managed and mentored a team of engineers and UX designers, fostering growth through performance feedback, technical guidance, and career development plans.
• Developed and managed project roadmaps, aligning engineering deliverables with product release schedules based on business priorities.
• Championed a culture of innovation and collaboration within the engineering team, resulting in employee retention and satisfaction.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive onboarding process for new hires, improving employee productivity and engagement through structured training, documentation, and mentorship programs.

Decoupled Data Services

• Architected and implemented a decoupled front-end system using React.js and Web Components that interfaced with microservices via GraphQL APIs.
• Designed and integrated a service layer to abstract API calls to digest and distribute campus-wide data.
• Reduced payload sizes by implementing GraphQL with dynamic queries.
• Bulk processing API endpoints for JSON and CSV.

Accessibility Compliance

• Led accessibility compliance efforts across web applications, ensuring adherence to WCAG 2.1 standards and improving usability for users with disabilities, resulting in a 20% increase in accessibility score.
• Conducted accessibility workshops and audits.
• Integrated automated accessibility testing tools, such as Lighthouse, reduce manual QA efforts and improve accessibility compliance coverage by 50%.

B2B E-Commerce Application - ArmourHouse

• Developed and maintained a robust B2B e-commerce platform with multilingual support built with Typescript, React, Redux, Apollo, React Router, Ramda, Scala, and PostgreSQL.
• Created a React component library with Storybook integration.
• Implemented complex state management solutions with Redux to handle inventory, pricing, order processing, account management, promotions, etc.
• Led the migration of legacy code to a modern React architecture, enhancing the maintainability and scalability of the application for future growth.
• Implemented caching strategies and data normalization on the client side using Redux and Apollo Client, improving data retrieval efficiency and reducing redundant API calls by 50%.
• Developed and optimized data processing workflows using Scala, improving system performance and reducing processing through efficiently handling large PostgreSQL datasets and parallel processing techniques.

B2C E-Commerce Application - ua.com

• Built and maintained React components for a high-traffic application.
• Implemented an interface response system to mitigate DDoS attacks, improving application resilience and reducing downtime through real-time traffic monitoring, rate-limiting, and automated threat detection protocols.
• Improved application performance by implementing lazy loading with GraphQL API for product data, resulting in faster content updates and real-time inventory management.
• Implemented responsive design and cross-browser compatibility, ensuring a seamless shopping experience across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
• Conducted comprehensive accessibility workshops for cross- functional teams, educating developers and designers on WCAG 2.1 guidelines and best practices, resulting in improved accessibility compliance and a reduction in accessibility-related issues.

• Led development and UX design for multiple high-traffic web applications, collaborating with the &Pizza team to build scalable Angular components for e-commerce and marketing platforms.
• Developed headless web applications using React, React Router, and Redux, implementing WCAG-compliant interfaces and integrating with PHP and Python backends.
• Organized and facilitated workshops for designers and developers, promoting best practices in usability, accessibility, and semantic HTML.
• Mentored developers in advanced JavaScript techniques, including functional programming, performance optimization, tree shaking, and abstraction patterns.
• Implemented continuous integration and deployment pipelines for React and Angular applications, ensuring efficient and reliable release processes.
• Spearheaded rapid prototyping of React components for A/B testing and client reviews, accelerating feedback loops and product iterations.

• Led development and UX design for prestigious clients including the Department of Treasury and the National Park Service, resulting in award-winning interfaces and web services that transformed the digital presence of government agencies and corporate entities.
• Created over ten award-winning user interfaces using technologies such as vanilla JavaScript, React, Ember, and Angular, delivering visually appealing and highly functional digital experiences.
• Supervised and mentored full-stack developers, facilitating onboarding, conducting code reviews, and coordinating project activities to ensure high-quality deliverables and team efficiency.
• Developed server-side web services using Ruby, PHP, and Node, implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs with the MVC architectural pattern to support scalable and robust applications.
• Led workshops and mentored stakeholders, designers, content managers, and developers on creating user-driven, accessible interfaces, fostering collaboration and best practices in usability and accessibility.
• Configured and maintained FedRAMP-certified production servers on AWS using Linux distributions such as CentOS, RedHat, and Amazon Linux (AMI), ensuring secure and reliable infrastructure for critical applications.
• Served as Product Owner for iOS store applications, CMS plugins, and analytical tracking tools, overseeing product development from concept to deployment.
• Utilized rapid prototyping techniques, including usability testing with eye-tracking technology and A/B comparative analysis, to create and iterate UI components swiftly and effectively.