$ npm test -- src/engine
4,500+ tests
95% coverage gate on the game engine
Senior Software Engineer
Josh Rochon
$ shipping reliable software from Seattle
Senior SWE · 7 yrs · Starbucks · Microsoft · BECU · Gauntlet AI
about.md
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# Josh Rochon
Senior SWE · Seattle
Howl's dad · snowboarder
retro games · light rail
josh ~ $ contact.sh
Projects
$ python eval.py --adapter josh
from 23.3% to 18.9%
word error rate · p = 0.014
#1 capstonePythonPyTorchLoRAFastAPI
Silent Flow
Reads words mouthed silently at a webcam and turns them into text. A 0.4 MB personal adapter, trained on under 3 minutes of my own video, cut word errors by about a fifth. My Gauntlet AI capstone, voted #1 by the cohort and staff.
$ diff p95_before p95_after
from 1,276 to 103 ms
p95 API latency
$ git push # runs the eval gate
96/96 passed
pass/fail rubrics across 69 eval cases
TypeScriptLangGraphClaude APIFHIROpenEMR
Clinical Co-pilot
A co-pilot for primary care physicians inside the OpenEMR health records system. It blocked any statement it couldn't trace back to the patient's record, and turned uploaded lab and intake PDFs into records a doctor reviews before filing.
$ eval --arm adversarial --n 200
86% vs 71.5%
held the rule vs Claude Sonnet · p < 0.001
$ npm run eval:golden
97.9%
grader agreement on 570 checked verdicts
Next.jsPostgresClaude APIElevenLabs
Coach Study
A hands-free iPad study app for a fitness coach in training. It drills the training manual with spaced repetition and grades spoken practice against the required checklist. It only deploys after live evals pass in CI.
josh ~ $ loading 5 more projects
Experience
~/career
josh ~ $ git log --graph --career
- Jul 2026 – Sep 2026Gauntlet AIAI Engineering FellowShipped a deployed project every week. Capstone voted #1 by the cohort and staff.
- Aug 2021 – Apr 2026Aim ConsultingSenior Consultant, SolutionsSenior engineer on client teams. Mentored junior consultants and wrote runbooks for live systems.
- Aug 2024 – Jan 2026StarbucksSenior React EngineerStaffing app that replaced Excel across 10,000+ stores, 100% manager adoption.
- Aug 2023 – Jul 2024Microsoft.NET DeveloperMoved 22+ projects off retired auth to clear a security SLA; added 100+ unit tests.
- Jul 2022 – Aug 2023BECUFull-Stack ASP.NET MVC DeveloperOnline banking APIs and features for tens of thousands of members; on call for a major launch.
- Oct 2021 – May 2022PurpleFrontend DeveloperRan 5+ sale-promotion releases; co-led the Presidents' Day Sale site.
- Nov 2020 – Apr 2021Coding DojoFull-stack Python/Django certificateAdded Python and Django to a React and .NET background.
- Jan 2019 – Mar 2020RedAwningSoftware DeveloperOwned the bookings calendar in the property manager portal; cut click lag by about a second.
- Jun 2018 – Dec 2018GIVE VolunteersJunior Software DeveloperBuilt and deployed a full-stack volunteer portal with a team of four.
Case Studies
written by me, published by Aim Consulting
$ grep sessions analytics.log
43,000+ sessions
after rollout to 10,000+ stores
ReactGraphQL2025
Modernizing Staff Planning with React
Replaced store managers' Excel staffing process for a national beverage retailer, from a 400-store pilot to full rollout.
$ git diff --stat auth/
ADAL → MSAL
retired auth replaced to clear a security SLA
.NETAzure.Identity2024
Compliance and Technical Debt Resolved
Took over 22 legacy .NET projects nobody had maintained, rebuilt their toolchains and moved them off deprecated packages to meet a security deadline.