Joshua Orndorff
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Orndorff is an Information Technology & Business Systems Lead with 11 years of hands-on software and infrastructure experience, currently leading a small agile team at Inofast Manufacturing to align .NET systems with business strategy. He combines backend and DevOps expertise—particularly in Substrate/Polkadot blockchain projects and Ethereum compatibility layers—with front-end work on React/Polkadot.js templates, showing full-stack flexibility. Comfortable shipping production runtime changes and Dockerized deployments, he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Substrate, Cumulus, and Moonbeam, with work touching consensus, runtime upgrades, and EVM compatibility. A business analytics graduate based in Philadelphia, he brings a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to bridging technical depth and operational impact while promoting Scrum and DevOps best practices.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Business Analytics, Bachelor's degree Business Analytics at Fairfield University
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Github Skills (48)
substrate10
javascript10
docker10
webconfig10
scripting10
democracy10
evm10
dockers10
parity10
script10
polkadot-js10
front-end-development10
ethereum10
configuration-file10
blockchain10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
JoshOrndorff/substrate-recipes
Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
A Hands-On Cookbook for Aspiring Blockchain Chefs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 470 commits, 258 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily worked on the back-end of the blockchain project, focusing on Substrate and Rust. They addressed double-map implementations by requiring explicit second hashers, and made other code changes. Moreover, they included a runtime and node wrapper in the kitchen and made updates for transaction payment and renames. These contributions are important for the development of the substrate-recipes, which is designed to help developers learn blockchain techniques.
blockchainsubstraterust
polkadot-developers/substrate-developer-hub.github.io
May 2019 - Oct 2020
Substrate Documentation
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 184 commits, 210 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on updating and configuring the website's configuration files. They modified the `siteConfig.js` file to adjust the website's title, tagline, URL, and base URL, as well as to remove blog functionality. The user also merged branches from a separate repository. The commits show interaction with the front-end components via the modification of the home page.
substrate
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