Josh Wein Software Developer

About Me

Software developer currently living in the North-Eastern part of the US. Focused on building scalable systems

I try to divide my time as equally as possible between tech, finding new books to read, finding new music to listen to, and finding new food to eat

Nonexhaustive Skill List (as of 2024)

Focus Languages

JAVA JAVASCRIPT PYTHON C++ SQL CSS HTML

Libraries & Frameworks Spotlight

SPRING (most Spring Frameworks) ANGULAR/REACT/VUE BOOTSTRAP/NAIVEUI JQUERY JUNIT DOCKER MAVEN/GRADLE TERRAFORM

Datastores

POSTGRES ORACLE S3 REDIS KAFKA RABBITMQ

Projects

International Klein Blue Life

Tower Defense Game with 40 levels and a built-in level editor. Built using Typescript.

View on Github

Endless Trailers

Website where users can watch endless(80) amounts of trailers filtered by genre, actor and other filters.

View on Github

Muse

Cloud Computing Project - Muse is a realtime multiplayer music experience in the same vein as Plink. It was created mostly using Javascript, HTML5 Canvas, and NodeJS with Socket.IO for the realtime functionality as well as room seperation. The sounds were created in Ableton Live.

bootify

Chrome extension that injects bootstrap style into any website. Allows the user to save websites to inject automatically

View on Github

NLP Sentence Generator

Cloud Computing Project - Generates sentences for a given topic using NLP techniques and backed by a 600,000 tweet corpus database.

View paper

*May take some time to start up. Hosted on OpenShift.

Key Rotation Decryptor/Encryptor

JavaScript implementation of the Vigenère cipher/Key Rotation. Decrypts and encrypts text based on the given key.

Reddit Design Tutorials

Ongoing project to create video tutorials focusing on specific aspects of designing subreddits on reddit.com using CSS.

This Website

This site was created using: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, and JQuery.

View website on Github

The blog is generated using Jekyll.

View blog on Github

Experience

September 2017 - Current

Bloomberg L.P.

Tech Lead/Software Developer

Tech Lead in Bloomberg Law focused on the Litigation Solutions area (Dockets Product). Focused on designing and delivering long term scalable projects and mentoring engineers.

Summer 2016

BlackRock Inc.

Software Engineering Intern

Built the next version of a Java backend server for the Aladdin Product Group leveraging Spring, Maven, and Ivy. Brought the project from design through QA testing to a production release.

Jan 2016 - May 2016

Viacom

Multiplatform Engineering Intern

Led a team of developers in creating an internal web tool for automating configuration file generation. Involved in the full SDLC including project scheduling estimations, design, and development of the project.

2014 - 2015

Stony Brook University

Teaching Assistant & Tutor

Held office hours each week to assist college students taking Computer Science III and Computer Music with course assignments and exam preparation. Assisted college students with computer science coursework and projects. Acted as a mentor for the students; teaching study habits and homework strategies.

2013

Everest BBN

Network Intern

Performed on-site maintenance and troubleshooting for servers and network issues. Set up networks for new businesses by running cable and setting up servers. Provided over the phone and on-site customer support.