I'm Joshua, a
Senior Engineer in Fintech.

I'm a software engineer with experience building apps for startups, global and public companies. Senior Engineer at a copy trading startup — previously in neobanking, insurtech, freelance marketplaces and freight-forwarding shipping software to >1M global users.

FINTECH, SOCIAL, & GLOBAL MARKETPLACES

Experience

01

dub, Senior Software Engineer

Early team member at dub. I'm working with my team to build and scale the first-ever regulated copy trading platform in the US. dub raised $17mm in seed funding.

02

Freelancer.com, Core Mobile Engineer

Launched new major features in the app like the new Local Jobs flow, Portfolios using Flutter Embedding, and improved our build systems and modularization our apps with 10M+ downloads.

03

Better (YC W22), Lead Engineer

I joined Better, a Fintech startup based in New York, to help build an app that enables Americans fight the unexpected shocks.

Philosophy

I relentlessly pursue impactful work, fueled by a passion for continuous growth, collaboration, and the unwavering excitement of a beginner's mindset.

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Skillset

I collaborate with businesses to solve their technical issues, launch new products and build effective engineering teams.

Product Engineering

Helped launch multiple products for startups and companies at scale, serving millions of users globally. I primarily write in Flutter, Dart, Kotlin, Swift, C#, SQL. Occasionally in JavaScript, Python, NoSQL.

Rapid Prototyping

My experience working for dub and other startups has helped me built a sense of agency to execute and launch high-quality features on-time.

Native & Cross-platform Experiences

Have been building beautiful interfaces with Flutter back in 2019 and shipped several apps since. I also work with low-level APIs, integrate and build custom 3rd-party SDKs, and write in native code like in Android, iOS and macOS.

CI/CD & DevOps

Saved my projects thousands of dev hours and $$$ operating costs by writing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for our projects. I also published reusable workflows for the community. I use CircleCI, Github Actions, fastlane. Occasionally, Bitrise, Jenkins and GitLab CI.

Community

I share my learnings and experiences to the community through events, my content, work, open-source projects for technologies like Flutter, Dart, Firebase, and On-device ML.


Joshua is the first Google Developer Expert for Flutter and Dart in the Philippines. He founded Flutter Philippines in 2019.

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Testimonials

Few lines from people who I have worked with in the past.

‘’I worked with Joshua at Freelancer.com. Joshua was an absolute out-performer in my team. He has deep expertise in Android app development and is also a great team player who can support his teammates to achieve business goals. I would love to recommend Joshua to any team that needs a technical leader.’’
Mike Ni
Senior Manager of Products, Atlassian
Former Group Product Manager, Freelancer.com
‘’I worked with Josh on a few projects, and he's one of those engineers that just has the knack for getting things done. It's also amazing how he always managed to remain level-headed, despite being put under tremendous pressure. If someone were to ask me to form an A-team that requires a mobile engineer, Josh would be at the very top of my wishlist.’’
Mark Basmayor
Head of Engineering, Angkas
Former Regional Director of Engineering, Freelancer.com
‘’As a colleague, I have got to admire Josh's passion for learning and self-improvement. He has played an active part in several meetup groups and have had key roles in a few hackathons that he's participated in. Still quite young, but he's recently managed to score becoming a Google Developer Expert for Flutter, a remarkable feat for someone with his age and experience.

Outside of work, Josh is soft-spoken and reserved, but is loyal and will give you the shirt off his back. He's a great engineer to work with.’’
Aldrich Co
Senior Software Engineer, Anyline
Former Engineering Manager - Mobile, Freelancer.com
‘’I had the pleasure of working with Josh as part of my Dev team for a Freight marketplace (mobile app), Josh is an exceptional person very thorough and dedicated. His knowledge in software development is fantastic and work ethic is second to none, he brought a fresh perspective to our team.’’
Josh Mullens
Founder and CEO, Freightlancer

Let's grab a coffee

Launching a new product or scaling an existing one to millions of users? Send us a message at hi@joshuamdeguzman.com

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