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Hi, I’m Joshua Darby. I’m a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building, scaling, and modernizing high-traffic web platforms serving millions of users. I design and deliver scalable backend services and migrations across adtech, media, and consumer finance; I collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to ship capabilities on highly available production systems, and I bring hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, and distributed systems to drive reliability and fast delivery.…Hi, I’m Joshua Darby. I’m a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building, scaling, and modernizing high-traffic web platforms serving millions of users. I design and deliver scalable backend services and migrations across adtech, media, and consumer finance; I collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to ship capabilities on highly available production systems, and I bring hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, and distributed systems to drive reliability and fast delivery.

Joshua Darby

Full Stack Developer, Back-End Developer, Front-End Developer, +2

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Hi, I’m Joshua Darby. I’m a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building, scaling, and modernizing high-traffic web platforms serving millions of users. I design and deliver scalable backend services and migrations across adtech, media, and consumer finance; I collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to ship capabilities on highly available production systems, and I bring hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, and distributed systems to drive reliability and fast delivery.…Hi, I’m Joshua Darby. I’m a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building, scaling, and modernizing high-traffic web platforms serving millions of users. I design and deliver scalable backend services and migrations across adtech, media, and consumer finance; I collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to ship capabilities on highly available production systems, and I bring hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, and distributed systems to drive reliability and fast delivery.

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Hi, I’m Joshua Darby. I’m a senior backend and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building, scaling, and modernizing high-traffic web platforms serving millions of users.

I design and deliver scalable backend services and migrations across adtech, media, and consumer finance; I collaborate with product, editorial, and engineering stakeholders to ship capabilities on highly available production systems, and I bring hands-on expertise in Python, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Elasticsearch, and distributed systems to drive reliability and fast delivery.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer, WNBA Backend CMS at NBA (National Basketball Association)

March 1, 2023 - Present

Led end-to-end migration of all 12 WNBA team websites to a headless CMS, migrating tens of thousands of content items and enabling publishing at scale. Architected a 7-service backend platform powering content publishing and distribution at scale, with cloud-native infrastructure. Implemented search indexing improvements and content delivery optimizations to support millions of fans with minimal downtime. Collaborated with product and editorial stakeholders to ship platform capabilities on highly available production systems.

Director, Software Engineering at Fluent, Inc.

August 1, 2020 - March 1, 2023

Architected and led hands-on development of six business-critical applications across adtech and consumer finance, spanning backend, infrastructure, and data. Built and scaled distributed systems on AWS and Docker with CI/CD pipelines and ML-powered workflows. Reduced production downtime by 95% through incident response and production-readiness improvements. Migrated to containerized infrastructure, improving deployment consistency and security posture. Raised team delivery output by ~20% via code-review standards and engineering-culture improvements.

Developer III at The Penny Hoarder (Taylor Media)

July 1, 2017 - October 1, 2018

Increased revenue 150% in 6 weeks by automating affiliate-offer ordering across affiliate articles. Built and maintained custom WordPress plugins and theme customizations in an Agile environment. Delivered custom reports, system improvements, and ongoing fixes for a high-traffic personal-finance publication.

Senior Developer at The Penny Hoarder (Taylor Media)

July 1, 2017 - October 1, 2018

Full-Stack Developer at Union + Webster

April 1, 2016 - July 1, 2017

Built web apps and mobile games for clients including Fox, Cisco, and Disney.

UI Developer at That's Us Technologies

November 1, 2015 - April 1, 2016

Led frontend UI work and plugin development for WordPress, focusing on editorial workflows and operational tooling.

Web Developer at The Longley Group

May 1, 2015 - October 1, 2015

Developed web applications and maintained client projects; contributed to frontend and backend features.

Web Developer at Local Visibility