Joshua Frankel
About Joshua Frankel
Joshua Frankel is a Senior Software Engineer at Rootly with extensive experience in software development and engineering roles across various companies.
Current Role at Rootly
Joshua Frankel is currently employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Rootly, a position he has held since 2023. In this role, he works remotely and is responsible for enhancing multiple integrations, including those with Slack, Jira, Linear, PagerDuty, and GoogleMeet. He has also architected twenty reusable components to promote application UI redesign and significantly reduce component regressions. Additionally, Joshua has implemented parallel testing using GitHub Actions, resulting in a 45% decrease in test suite run time.
Previous Experience at Colaboratory
Before joining Rootly, Joshua Frankel served as a Founding Software Engineer at Colaboratory from 2022 to 2023. This role, also performed remotely, involved the initial development and establishment of software engineering practices for the company over the course of a year.
Tenure at Lessonly
Joshua Frankel spent a substantial period at Lessonly, where he held two significant roles. From 2019 to 2022, he was the Lead Software Engineer, and from 2016 to 2019, he served as a Software Engineer. Based in the Indianapolis, Indiana area, his responsibilities likely included leading software development projects and managing engineering teams.
Early Career and Internships
Joshua Frankel's early career included various roles that helped build his expertise in software development. Between 2010 and 2012, he worked as a Web Applications Developer at Mesirow Financial in Chicago. Prior to that, he served as a Web Developer at Orbit Media Studios, Inc. from 2012 to 2014, also in Chicago. His career began with internships at Saucepan Creative in 2008 and 2009, located in Noblesville, IN.
Educational Background
Joshua Frankel holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue University, where he studied from 2005 to 2010. He further specialized in Agile Web Development by achieving a Ruby on Rails Certification from DePaul University in 2011. His educational background has provided a solid foundation for his career in software engineering.