Josh Devins

Software Architect

Berlin Area, Germany

Current
  • Software Architect at Nokia gate5 GmbH
Past
  • Creator and Lead Developer at Mattress Framework
  • Owner at Josh Devins Photography
  • Senior Software Developer at Fiver Media
Education
  • Simon Fraser University
Connections
171 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Josh Devins’s Summary

An intelligent, fast-learning architect and software developer with great technical and communication skills.

- A leading developer in innovation, creativity and adoption of new technologies.
- 10+ years of Java development experience.
- Founder and lead developer of Jitr, a JUnit integration test runner allowing your web application integration tests to easily run against a lightweight web container in the same JVM as your tests.
- Community involvement in open source projects such as Spring, JSR 311, JBoss and PMD.
- A proponent of lightweight development practices, architecture and implementation.
- An Agile Manifesto signatory.
- Canadian citizen and German resident.

Josh Devins’s Specialties:

Architecture: enterprise architecture, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, loosely coupled systems

Style: pragmatic, professional, agile, efficient, lightweight

Implementation: Java (SE, EE), Spring, Hibernate, EHCache, Terracotta, Log4J, Apache Commons (lang, http), web services (REST, SOAP), Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, AJAX, Comet, Flex, Day Communique CMS.

Tools: Eclipse, Maven, Ant, JUnit, Cobertura, FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, Subversion, CVS, Jira, Bamboo, Hudson, Nexus.


Josh Devins’s Experience

  • Software Architect

    Nokia gate5 GmbH

    (Computer Software industry)

    December 2008Present (1 year 1 month)

  • Creator and Lead Developer

    Mattress Framework

    (Computer Software industry)

    December 2007December 2008 (1 year 1 month)

    http://www.mattressframework.org

    The Mattress Framework is a Java and Spring based, lightweight and extensible REST framework. It is loosely related to the JSR-311 initiative, but is not compliant since much of the specification has been deemed far too complex or unnecessary.

  • Owner

    Josh Devins Photography

    (Photography industry)

    April 2003December 2008 (5 years 9 months)

  • Senior Software Developer

    Fiver Media

    (Online Media industry)

    April 2006November 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  • J2EE Software Developer

    ecmarket.com Inc.

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2000April 2006 (6 years 3 months)


Josh Devins’s Education

  • Simon Fraser University

    Bachelor of Science , Computer Science major, Philosophy minor , 19972003


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