I’m currently working as a Senior Staff Engineer at Shopify, building a visual programming platform for merchants and improving the interfaces for Shopify developers. I live in Chicago and Chicago is a great place to live.

I’m an experienced startup operator with a history of scaling tech and teams. I’m a self-taught software developer, (and tech lead, and manager, yadda yadda) with a much wider-ranging career and education before that. I strive to bring curiosity, encouragement, and first-principles thinking to the work I’m doing.

My email address is josh@joshbeckman.org. I strongly prefer email as a communication method, so email me if you have a comment about something I’ve written - or write a post on your own site. Or you can follow/message me on open social networks (see Verification below).

Want help with something? Here are ways I’m able to help. Or, book some time to chat.

You can read more about this site or the tools I use.

Support

In addition to writing and sharing tools on this site, I maintain many open-source software projects. I welcome any issues or ideas you may open there and especially any code you can contribute. Creating and maintaining open-source software and open writing takes a lot of time and money, so fund my software maintenance and writing via GitHub Sponsors.

Verification

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Passive Accounts

These are me, but I don’t actively use them. If you happen to use these networks, feel free to interact with me and I’ll see it eventually.

Inactive Accounts

These were me, but I don’t use them any more.

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