Joshua Ray

Joshua Ray has extensive work experience in software engineering and web development. Joshua is currently employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Mural, starting in 2022. Previously, they worked at Singularity Interactive as a Staff Software Engineer and later as an Engineering Manager from 2019 to 2022. In these roles, they handled priority engineering support, prototyped new features, and established architectural patterns. Joshua successfully delivered a content authoring environment and implemented a subscription and account signup flow. Prior to Singularity Interactive, Joshua worked as a freelance developer and consultant at Ollomedia from 2007 to 2022, providing personalized web development and consulting services. Joshua has also held positions at Lucidworks, TeamSnap, Gaia Inc., Singularity Interactive (again), WordPress, Red8 Interactive, and UpTrending, where they contributed to building robust UI systems, developed payment solutions and platform features, built subscription-based streaming video platforms, provided consulting on application and platform design, organized WordCamp St. Louis, and developed custom WordPress themes and web applications. Joshua's technical expertise includes CSS architecture, JavaScript, Content Management Systems (WordPress), Angular, React, web components, TypeScript, Redux, ES6, and responsive design. Overall, they have a diverse skill set and a strong track record of delivering successful projects.

Joshua Ray's education history begins in 2002 when they attended the University of Central Oklahoma and studied Photo Journalism. Joshua completed their studies in 2004. In 2009, they enrolled at Western Governors University to pursue a degree in IT, with a focus on Information Technology. However, they only attended the university for a single year. Later in 2009, they studied Web Development and Design at Portland Community College. The following year, from 2010 to 2011, Joshua attended Portland State University, where they pursued a degree in General Education, with a focus on Marketing/Ecommerce and Computer Science.