Hey 👋
I'm Josh Masen.

I’ve been building stuff on the web for a long time. My first client was a family friend who needed a website for her at-home nursing business. I think I was 12 years old. Fast forward to college: while studying graphic design, I was still teaching myself to code and freelancing on the side. By the time I earned my degree, I realized I still had a passion for building things on the web, so I jumped into web development full-time.

I spent the early years of my career at design agencies and larger companies, where the overlap of my design education and tech background led me to projects in branding, advertising, and ecommerce. Eventually, I got curious about startups and entrepreneurship and joined an early-stage startup as employee #1. As is typical in startups, I went wherever I could provide value—first in tech support, then in marketing, and ultimately into full-on software engineering.

After that company was acquired, I realized how much I missed building software in the scrappy early stages. That’s when I joined Workshop as an early engineer, helping build an email-first internal communications platform. And that’s where I am today—still deeply passionate about building cool stuff on the web.

Here's what I've been up to since then, in resume-style reverse chronological order: