Joshua Tscheschlog

Resume

Recent experience, current scope, and focus areas

Staff Software Engineer building shared systems across platform architecture, design systems, developer tooling, and delivery workflows. Turns repeated engineering decisions into shared foundations that make teams faster and cut down on coordination.

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Experience

Staff Software Engineer

KBRA

Feb 2024 - Present

  • Lead cross-team initiatives across KFI platform architecture, shared UI foundations, and internal delivery systems, establishing architectural standards that reduced delivery friction for multiple product teams.
  • Manage the engineering side of the enterprise design system, codifying repeated UI decisions into a 4-layered token model and component library used by 10+ teams and ~30 projects.
  • Engineered an internal AI workflow CLI to transition shared agent customizations from informal sharing into a versioned distribution model, establishing a governed contribution path adopted across the organization.
  • Architected reusable screening infrastructure that was leveraged to accelerate the delivery of the M&A screener, successfully turning product-specific work into a durable platform capability.
  • Drive the long-term technical strategy for the KFI platform, supporting mission-critical benchmarking and risk analysis for 10,000+ U.S. banks and credit unions.
  • Provide technical mentorship and guidance to senior engineers, driving high-impact architectural reviews and standardizing technical interview processes for senior-level hires.

Senior Software Engineer

KBRA

Aug 2018 - Feb 2024

  • Championed the transition to trunk-based development and feature flags, decoupling deployments from releases and reducing release time from ~8 hours to ~5 minutes.
  • Migrated large portions of legacy application infrastructure from Angular and PHP GraphQL to Next.js and Apollo, while moving to Docker and Terraform for delivery.
  • Re-architected Elasticsearch into a highly available 5+ node cluster, implementing a robust nightly ETL pipeline to ingest and process 40M+ records off-hours.
  • Developed and maintained KBRA's React-based design system and component library, shipping 220+ releases over 3 years to streamline organization-wide UI delivery.

Lead Frontend Engineer

Klezma

May 2022 - May 2023

  • Served as the sole frontend engineer through MVP launch, owning the end-to-end Next.js architecture and establishing the foundational UI system for a web3 creator platform.
  • Partnered closely with product to drive roadmap planning and translated product requirements into a scalable MVP.
  • Supported backend operations by developing and maintaining NestJS services and assisting with ERC-1155 smart-contract development in Solidity.
  • Led the technical execution that resulted in winning NFTHack 2022, validating the core product hypothesis.

Earlier breadth

  • Software Developer / Lead Data Scientist, Assero Services
  • Software Developer, Visneta
  • Software Engineer, Blu Mediterranean Grill
  • Software Engineer, Underground Vape

Selected impact

  • Reduced KBRA release times from ~8 hours of coordinated effort to ~5-minute trunk-based deployments by migrating legacy infrastructure to Docker and Terraform.
  • Architected a 4-layered token system that translated UI decisions into delivery infrastructure, supporting 10+ teams and roughly 30 projects.
  • Built and distributed an internal AI tooling CLI (Node.js) that standardized agent customizations and prompts, establishing a governed contribution model across KBRA Technology.
  • Re-architected Elasticsearch into a scalable 5+ node cluster and built nightly ETL pipelines capable of loading 40M+ financial records off-hours.

Tech stack

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, GraphQL, Solidity

Frontend & UI

React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Design Tokens

Backend & Data

Node.js, NestJS, Apollo GraphQL, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL

Infrastructure & Tools

Docker, Terraform, EKS (Helm), GitHub Actions, CLI Tooling

Current scope

  • KFI platform architecture and delivery systems
  • Design systems, token libraries, and shared UI foundations
  • Internal tooling, AI workflows, and governed distribution
  • Technical mentorship, reviews, and senior-level interviewing

Education and awards

B.S. in Energy, Business and Finance, Penn State (2015)

  • KBRA Hackathon 2019 winner
  • NFTHack 2022 winner

Contact

Emailjosh@tsches.dev
LocationToronto, ON • Naples, FL • Philadelphia, PA

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