Josh West

Led the messaging team responsible for Slack and Gmail integrations
Built search as you type functionality for Slack and Gmail inboxes powered by Elasticsearch, with a zero-downtime upgrade process for schema changes
Instituted best practices for Cloud Security and deployment including secret management and continuous integration
Facilitated faster local development by moving to a modern Docker based environment
Responsible for backend performance

Oversaw a division that more than tripled in size to 16 developers, reorganizing into four teams with weekly check-ins and standardized format for yearly team and individual OKRs
Began transitioning The Atlantic from a monolithic codebase running out of a datacenter to a more service-oriented architecture running on containers in AWS
Oversaw numerous successful product launches, including homepage and article redesigns, rollout of AMP versions of all articles, GDPR compliance, a new podcast section, a redesigned iOS app, and a paywall with a redesigned login and user accounts
Primary developer for multiple products including our initial Facebook Instant and Apple News launches, HTTPS transition, automatic in-article HTML ad insertion, and a full CDN migration including coding new advanced CDN side logic such as JWT validation and refresh

One of two developers primarily responsible for coding a new custom Django powered CMS for TheAtlantic.com and for importing all magazine, blog, and other HTML content from legacy CMS databases and flat files without downtime
Designed a new server architecture that increased stability and better utilized resources
Led development of a new Atlantic Cities website and CMS
Recruited, screened, and hired new developers
Active in rapidly responding to, troubleshooting, and coordinating any site reliability issues

Primary developer for the launch of The Atlantic Wire at Atlantic Media's Innovation Lab
Led a major redesign that unified all front-end code for TheAtlantic.com
Piloted Python / Django as a better technical fit for our business needs than PHP, leading to the team adopting Python as the back-end language of choice

Hired and managed a web development intern and one full-time employee
Responsible for meeting with clients, gathering and shaping requirements, writing proposals and contracts, creating original web designs, and ensuring that final web products met client and TMI standards
Developed a custom backend for TMI to securely track and run reports on deployment information for the Engineering Division

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