Joshua Cohen

Technology professional with 17+ years of designing scalable, responsive web applications and complex front-end solutions. Deep expertise in React, JavaScript, TypeScript, GraphQL, AEM, and component-based architecture, with a strong focus on accessibility and performance. Skilled at leading engineering teams through CMS redesigns, database optimization, and front-end modernization.

Adaptable to new technologies, including AI integrated coding, and committed to taking ownership from architecture through delivery.

Senior Software Architect at Publicis Groupe - Razorfish (2023-09 – 2026-08)

• Collaborated with multinational team to translate Figma designs into responsive AEM web components; delivered interactive front-end experiences for Genesis Motor and Amica, including integrations with specialized API layers allowing for product comparison and customization.
• Reduced managed email-template files by 50%, using Mustache.js while achieving 90%+ WCAG 2.2 compliance across 15+ clients and devices.
• Created a centralized portal site, leveraging OAuth 2.0, to import and manage thousands of users across dozens of Salesforce Accounts, reducing complexity of account management to a single point of access, using a React based front-end integrating with a GraphQL back-end.
• Integrated AI-assisted coding by auto generating over 50% of all unit tests, resulting in over 95% code coverage, saving weeks of development time.

Senior Software Architect at Publicis Groupe - Level Studios (2017-03 – 2023-08)

• Modernized a custom video-publishing CMS with a React front end and REST API backend, improving site-generation performance by 5× through Redis caching and scalable architecture; expanded into full-stack development and ultimately led a team of three engineers in evolving the platform over several years.
• Attained 99% service uptime by leading engineers through Scrum practices and streamlining deployment and release processes for a custom CMS.
• Cut site-generation time from 2+ hours to under 7 minutes through database redesign and Redis caching.
• Secured a continued client contract by delivering a video-based CMS redesign on schedule while developing modular React/Redux components.

Senior Software Associate at Publicis Groupe - Level Studios (2012-07 – 2017-02)

• Delivered pixel-perfect, high-performance web experiences under strict design requirements through optimized front-end architecture and rigorous design standards. Enabled several teams to monitor dozens of performance metrics through a real-time AngularJS and D3.js visualization dashboard.
• Built and maintained Apple’s legal warranty website across dozens of products and release years, creating reusable components for version-specific legal documents.
• Designed high-fidelity Apple Education and Investor webpages, ensuring design consistency across 15+ desktop and mobile browser versions.

Software Associate at Publicis Groupe - Level Studios (2009-10 – 2012-06)

• Created high quality front-end experience, focusing on high quality user experiences on both desktop and mobile devices.
• Optimized HTC’s interactive lobby experience on schedule, mastering three.js to create animated 3D graphs and dynamic metric transitions.
• Maintained mobile-first experiences below 500KB while limiting memory usage to 20MB through asset, code, and resource optimization

Software Engineer at Digital Foundry

• Supported hundreds of editors across 39 states and markets by developing a custom.NET/C# content management system with multi-step workflows and advanced publishing capabilities.

BS in Computer Science – CalPoly, San Luis Obispo