Josh Leichtung
Senior Director Of Application Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Leichtung is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling application teams, currently serving as Senior Director of Application Engineering at Hinge Health in San Francisco. He is passionate about clean, well-tested code and best practices, and focuses on making teams highly productive through mentorship, pragmatic architecture, and elegant solutions to complex problems. Josh progressed through technical and leadership roles at Hinge Health—from Staff Engineer to senior director—driving delivery for a fast-growing digital health platform validated by peer-reviewed research. His background includes hands-on freelance development across Rails, React, Node, and PHP, plus mentoring at Dev Bootcamp, which gives him a rare blend of individual contributor craftsmanship and people leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate product goals into maintainable systems while cultivating a strong engineering culture.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
shell8
rust8
graphql8
relay8
rails8
form-helper8
ruby8
command-line7
graphql-ruby7
frontend6
vim6
stripe-payments6
react5
webpack5
jshint5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
joshleichtung/phase-0-tracks
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:95 PRs, 60 pushes, 95 branches in 2 months
joshleichtung/dotfiles
Apr 2015 - Aug 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 10 years 6 months
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