Joshua Tscheschlog

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Recent experience, current scope, and focus areas

I’m a staff-level software engineer focused on shared systems that reduce complexity and make product teams faster. My recent work centers on platform architecture, design systems as infrastructure, and internal tooling that increases leverage across teams.

A browser-readable version of my recent experience and current scope, with a one-page PDF for standard application workflows.

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Experience

Staff Software Engineer

KBRA

Feb 2024 - Present

Lead cross-team initiatives around KFI platform architecture, shared UI foundations, internal tooling, and delivery systems across multiple lines of business. Current work emphasizes reducing product complexity, improving developer leverage, and supporting scalable delivery through shared infrastructure.

Senior Software Engineer

KBRA

Aug 2018 - Feb 2024

Worked across KFI web applications, GraphQL APIs, search infrastructure, and design-system foundations while helping modernize an aging application stack. Contributed to trunk-based delivery, feature flags, screening infrastructure, and the platform work behind major release-time reductions and newer product capabilities.

Lead Frontend Engineer

Klezma

May 2022 - May 2023

Served as the only frontend engineer on the team, owning frontend architecture and product-facing implementation through MVP. Led planning and development for the Next.js frontend, made the frontend decisions required to get the product to MVP, shaped the UI system, and supported the backend as needed.

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 time from a full-day code-freeze workflow to about five minutes by a single developer.
  • Built shared design-system infrastructure that roughly halved average frontend complexity across the organization.
  • Shipped internal AI tooling that turned shared skills and workflow assets into a governed distribution model.
  • Served as the sole frontend engineer at Klezma, owning frontend architecture and implementation through MVP.

Current scope

  • KFI platform architecture and delivery systems
  • Design systems, token libraries, and shared UI foundations
  • Internal tooling, AI workflows, and developer experience
  • 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

LinkedIn

Toronto, ON