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Josh User

@joshuser20

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I build and ship production web and mobile products with Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, and Laravel.

Australia

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build and ship production web or mobile products end to end, combining product definition, engineering, launch, and ongoing operation.

I've spent six years building and shipping production web and mobile products, from product definition through launch and ongoing operation. I currently work independently across Next.js, TypeScript, React Native, Expo, PostgreSQL, and AWS.

I’ve shipped consumer products including FragHub, a PUBG replay viewer and statistics tracker rebuilt from Laravel to Next.js; PetrolPuppy, a live Australian fuel-price comparison app; ChalkBee; ToneDeck; and CampaignCache.

I’ve also built Cars4Us.com.au at Pivotal Agency, contributed to Digistorm Funnel’s school admissions platform, and developed marketplace features for @realty. For FrontGate’s Early Access launch, I built the Livewire frontend for its API portal and developer gateway.

I bring deep Laravel foundations, 90+ merged pull requests across the Laravel ecosystem, and technical research into queue safety and serverless OOM retry behaviour. I also run self-hosted infrastructure, ship native iOS apps, and contribute technical writing on production engineering.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Independent Software Engineer

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Self Employed

May 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)

Building and shipping consumer web and mobile products end to end, including product definition, engineering, launch, and ongoing operation of live systems. Owns the full stack across multiple production products and runs self-hosted infrastructure on Hetzner via Coolify.

Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL Prisma Drizzle Stripe React Native Expo RevenueCat Admob Cloudflare Hetzner Coolify GraphQL React Server Components Laravel Livewire

Laravel Application Developer

Pivotal Agency

Oct 2022 - Apr 2023 (6 months)

Built Cars4Us.com.au, a national car marketplace with buy, sell and finance workflows. Developed a vehicle filtering system with comparison, favourites and weekly finance calculators, plus a recommendation algorithm.

Laravel Livewire AlpineJS Statamic CMS AWS PHP Database Optimization API Integration PDF Generation Testing Serverless

Full-Stack Developer (Laravel + Vue)

Digistorm

Jan 2021 - Aug 2022 (1 year 7 months)

Built and maintained features across Digistorm Funnel, a school enrolment and admissions platform used by schools across Australia. Worked across the full stack in an Agile team with Vue 2+ components on the frontend and Laravel 7+ on the backend.

Laravel Vue.Js PostgreSQL Tailwind SCSS Agile Code Review

Full-Stack Developer (Laravel + React)

@realty

Jun 2020 - Jan 2021 (7 months)

Full-stack development on a two-sided real estate marketplace connecting agents and buyers. Built and maintained property listings, agent dashboards and search functionality.

Laravel React Fullstack Development Real Estate

PHP Developer

Budget Pet Products

Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 (9 months)

Built REST APIs integrating the ecommerce storefront with third-party fulfilment and inventory services. Managed server infrastructure and set up CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.

Laravel REST APIs CI CD server management PHP

Web Developer (Internship)

CodingLabs.io

Jul 2019 - Sep 2019 (2 months)

12-week intensive covering Git, Laravel, databases, testing and MVC architecture. Contributed to the open-source Convict Records project.

Git Laravel Databases Testing MVC Architecture

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

TAFE Queensland

Certificate IV in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity

2023 - 2024

Completed a Certificate IV in Cybersecurity, covering threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and cloud security.