Josh Gachnang

• Built the MVP of a real-time machine learning app which took photos taken at red carpet celebrities and identified them using AWS Rekognition.
• Helped University of Maryland - CATT Lab migrate Flash apps to React. Wrote one feature to display tens of thousands of bottlenecks on a map performantly. Built an MVP of a new app to demo to new clients.
• Developed a React Native app called HomeSafe to use location tracking to automatically text friends and family when you make it home safely.

Triggr Health provides a predictive system of care for addiction recovery that supports users on their personal path to long-term remission.

• Hired as the first software engineer.
• Helped migrate the backend to Mongo and NodeJS from Parse and a hosted HIPAA DB.
• Led the team to build a community feature in the app for supporting peers; rewrote the native apps in React Native to increase iteration speed and adding interest-based groups to the community.
• Built a display that shows random patients' reasons for getting sober to remind the team why they do what they do.
• Worked with React, React Native, NodeJS, iOS and Swift, Android and Java, Mongo, Ansible, and AWS to build product features. 

• Helped launch the OnMetal Bare Metal Cloud product using OpenStack Ironic.
• Contributed heavily to OpenStack Ironic and other OpenStack projects.
• Worked as a core reviewer on the Ironic Python Agent, a deployment agent for servers, and a top reviewer for the Ironic project.
• Provided two talks at OpenStack summits about the project.

Computer-Aided Engineering provides services and facilities to foster the intelligent and efficient use of the computing technologies in the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering.

• Troubleshooted hardware issues in desktop labs, networking equipment, and servers.
• Built an automation system to quickly erase entire labs remotely before decommissioning them and automated remote management of desktops.

Swoop Search engages in searching, analyzing, extending, and integrating visualized data.

• Built an MVP in a weekend for an apartment search application using their patented search interface.
• Developed the frontend, backend, and spidering for the apartment search application. The spider made the most complete database of available apartments around Madison, WI.