Joshua Toth

A passionate techie based out of Melbourne currently working as a Prototyping Engineer at Amazon Web Services.

I also publish articles.

work

My Work

London, United Kingdom, Contracting 2018 - 2021

In 2018 I moved to London. I had the ambitious goal of working for four different companies in a contracting capacity. The idea was to work across very different development teams, on different products within different businesses. I wanted to get as much experience and perspective as I could. I'm excited to say I ended up working a total of 5 contracts at some very different workplaces: startup, consulting, enterprise, big data and retail.

Growth From Knowledge (gfk.com)

Lead/Senior Developer

Workplace

GfK is Germany's largest market research institute, and the fourth largest market research organisation in the world

Project

GFK Newron: a data analytics platform that supports sales and marketing leaders who need to track performance of their brand and product range.

Main Tech

Apollo - Express - Graphql - Highcharts - Node.js - React - Typescript

PA Consulting/Aviva (paconsulting.com)

Lead Developer.

Workplace

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

Project

Aviva Penny: MVP of an IOT moneybox that required the setup of a bank account, the delivery of the device and the upkeen of the device's profile.

Main Tech

AWS (Lambda, Cognito, DynamoDB, AWS Gateway) - Node.js - Terraform - Travis

Acuris (acuris.com)

Senior Developer.

Workplace

Acuris is a media company specialising in high-value content for financial professionals.

Project

Acruis CMS: MVP of a state-of-the-art cms for Acuris internals to create, edit, audit and publish articles.

Main Tech

AWS - Docker - Golang - Node.js - React - Terraform - Travis - Typescript

Holland & Barrett (hollandandbarrett.com)

Senior Developer.

Workplace

Holland & Barrett is a chain of health food shops with over 1,300 stores in 16 countries.

Project

Platform uplift: main retail site and homepage.

Main Tech

GatsbyJS - Magnolia (CMS) - Node.js - React - Typescript

Floom (floom.com)

Lead/Senior Developer.

Workplace

Floom helps you send stunning flowers by local independent florists.

Project

FloomX: MVP of a new B2B platform for the purchase and sale of florist supplies. Floom CMS: A platform for clients to design and deploy their own website using template components.

Main Tech

DatoCMS - Docker - GatsbyJS - Kubernetes - Node.js - Postgres - Prisma - Typescript

Melbourne, Australia, Full-Time, 2012 - 2018

Born and raised in Victoria, Australia I completed my Bachelor of ICT (Games development) at Swinburne University. After that I spent several years in the Melbourne tech scene before exploring internationally.

2014 - 2018, PageUp (pageuppeople.com)

Junior developer -> Developer -> Senior developer.

Workplace

PageUp is a pioneer HR software that streamlines recruitment, development and retention of talent.

Project

PageUp is where I honed myself as a developer. I worked on many projects in several different teams. I could talk for hours how much I loved the work and the people I worked with there. It was really an amazing journey.

Main Tech

.Net (Classic ASP, Webforms, MVC, Web API) - Angular - AWS - Node - SASS

2012 - 2014, ObjectMastery

Undergraduate developer.

Workplace

Now known as Integrated Application Development (IntegraDev), IntegraDev is dedicated to providing quality solutions for the financial services industry.

Project

My undergraduate developer position where I experience my first foray into the web development world. I worked in several small projects, eventually leaving to continue my studies at university.

Main Tech

Delphi - SQL

What have I been up to?

Where's a better place to show off some of the stuff I'm most proud of?

DDD - Organiser & Presenter
2016 - 2018
After presenting a talk on Microservices at DDD Melbourne 2016 I decided to get involved with the community organisation. For the next couple years I was a several time presenter at DDD Nights as well as assisting in organising several DDD events.
Complete my 5th Contract
2018 - 2021
Unearthing myself from a comfortable, fun, challenging job that felt like home was tough! I wanted to put myself out there and give contracting a shot. I had no idea if moving to London to contract to would work out or not. I thought I had what it took and I was out to prove myself. Thankfully it did and I was able to complete five total contracts! All were intentionally short to mid term, I wanted to make sure I didn't get too comfortable anywhere.
Win my first public hackathon
BCG Digital Ventures, 2019
Utilising my idea, my 3 teammates and I worked tirelessly to produce AskPaul: A communication framework targeting youth on the verge of homelessness. By considering the needs and symptoms of unprepared homelessness, we were able to target a massive problem area. The solution we produced was intentionally branded to be un-accusatory and intended to be used by those who do not consider themselves homeless.
Alt.net - Host & Organiser
2016 - 2018
I hosted and co-organised the Alt.net meetup in Melbourne. The meetup has around 2000 members with monthly sessions where one to three guest presenters talked about their passion: .Net. I enjoy being involved in the community and firmly believe this culture makes our profession awesome.
DDD - Organiser & Presenter
2016 - 2018
After presenting a talk on Microservices at DDD Melbourne 2016 I decided to get involved with the community organisation. For the next couple years I was a several time presenter at DDD Nights as well as assisting in organising several DDD events.
Complete my 5th Contract
2018 - 2021
Unearthing myself from a comfortable, fun, challenging job that felt like home was tough! I wanted to put myself out there and give contracting a shot. I had no idea if moving to London to contract to would work out or not. I thought I had what it took and I was out to prove myself. Thankfully it did and I was able to complete five total contracts! All were intentionally short to mid term, I wanted to make sure I didn't get too comfortable anywhere.