Josh Devins

Current

• Creator and Lead Developer at Mattress Framework
• Senior Software Developer at Fiver Media
• Ownerat Josh Devins Photography (Self-employed)

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Past

• Java/J2EE Software Developer at ecmarket.com Inc.

Education

• Simon Fraser University

Recommended

7 people have recommended Josh

Connections

133 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• Josh Devins Photography
• Fiver Media
• Mattress Framework

Josh Devins’s Summary

An intelligent, fast-learning architect and software developer with great technical and communication skills.

- A leading developer in innovation, creativity and adoption of new technologies.
- 10+ years of Java development experience.
- Founder and lead developer of the Mattress Framework, a Java and Spring based, lightweight and extensible REST framework.
- Contributor to open source projects such as Spring, JSR 311, JBoss and PMD.
- A proponent of lightweight development practices, architecture and implementation.
- An Agile Manifesto signatory.
- Canadian citizen, able to travel internationally.

Josh Devins’s Specialties:

Architecture: enterprise architecture, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, loosely coupled systems

Style: pragmatic, professional, agile, efficient, lightweight

Implementation: Java (SE, EE), Spring, Hibernate, EHCache, Terracotta, Log4J, Apache Commons (lang, http), web services (REST, SOAP), Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, AJAX, Comet, Flex, Day Communique CMS.

Tools: Eclipse, Maven, Ant, JUnit, Cobertura, FindBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, Subversion, CVS, Jira, Bugzilla, Bamboo.

Josh Devins’s Experience

• Creator and Lead Developer

  Mattress Framework

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year)

  http://www.mattressframework.org
  
  The Mattress Framework is a Java and Spring based, lightweight and extensible REST framework. It is loosely related to the JSR-311 initiative, but is not compliant since much of the specification has been deemed far too complex or unnecessary.

• Senior Software Developer

  Fiver Media

  (Online Media industry)

  April 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)

• Owner

  Josh Devins Photography (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Photography industry)

  April 2003 — Present (5 years 8 months)

• Java/J2EE Software Developer

  ecmarket.com Inc.

  (Computer Software industry)

  February 2000 — April 2006 (6 years 3 months)

Josh Devins’s Education

• Simon Fraser University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science major, Philosophy minor, 1997 — 2003

Additional Information

Josh Devins’s Websites:

• Josh Devins Photography
• Fiver Media
• Mattress Framework