Joshua Bence
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Bence is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable distributed systems and full-stack products from Mountain View. Currently on Netflix’s Open Connect OCTools team, he brings deep expertise in performance-conscious engineering, edge rendering, and rapid product prototyping honed across startups and education tech. He has led technical teams, refactored release toolchains for faster, higher-quality deployments, and introduced A/B testable edge pipelines that let product and marketing self-serve without impacting users. As a former CTO and engineering lead, he combines hands-on coding with hiring, mentoring, and cross-org product discovery, and has shipped dozens of interactive learning experiences backed by AWS and ML tooling. Pragmatic and resilient, he prefers fast-paced collaborative environments and enjoys tackling visionary problems that require both technical depth and operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Game Development, Bachelor’s Degree, Game Development at Collins College
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Github Skills (140)
json-schema10
security10
sortable10
javascript10
data-validation10
react-component10
compiler10
gatsby10
json10
static-site-generator10
draggable10
grid-layout10
resizable10
gatsbyjs10
sorting10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jdbence/react-sortable-hoc
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
✌️ A set of higher-order components to turn any list into an animated, touch-friendly, sortable list.
Contributions:27 commits, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
higher-order-component
jdbence/firestore-parser
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
Parse the Firestore REST API JSON into a useable JS object
Contributions:12 releases, 46 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 5 months
firestorejs-objectrestrest-apijson
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