Josh Dickson

Since July 2025, I've been Head of Engineering, Frontend at Mochi Health, leading the Patient Product team. We own the mobile and web experiences across iOS, Android, and web—built from a single React Native codebase.

My focus has been on consolidating the patient experience and improving the foundations: unifying ordering flows, building new product surfaces like Progress Tracker and Provider Search, and establishing the release and quality infrastructure to ship reliably.

Since I joined, the iOS app has gone from 1.7 to 4.8 stars and reached top 50 in Medical on the App Store.

I'm the founder of OpenNutrition, a nutrition tracking app and open food database. The idea is to use AI to drive our costs low enough that we can give away what competitors charge for.

We maintain a free, open-source database of around 330k branded foods plus 15k core generic entries. Our search product, DeepSearch, is a RAG system that fills gaps in real-time—if we don't have a food, it searches the web, parses the result with an LLM, and adds a structured entry on the fly.

The iOS app ties it all together: React Native frontend, Node.js API, PostgreSQL with pgvector.

From 2018 to 2024, I was co-founder and VP of Engineering at Bid Ventures, a daily fantasy sports startup where users traded player shares based on real-time game scoring. We raised $26M across four rounds before being acquired by Splash Sports in mid-2024.

I built the exchange engine in Go, architected to handle over 1M orders/sec using DynamoDB Streams. The pricing engine ran 100k+ Monte Carlo simulations per cycle (p99 under 20ms) to set market prices—those models drove 98% of our trading volume.

I grew our engineering team from zero to 16 and kept the platform above 99.99% uptime across four NFL seasons.

I'm a co-inventor on US Patent 18/314,885, which covers some of our clearinghouse and settlement mechanics.

From 2017 to 2018, I was Director of Engineering at Northout, where I led a globally distributed team of about 60 engineers and designers.

Most of my time went to enterprise clients—a $10B grocery chain, a Fortune 500 insurer—helping them ship projects across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

From 2014 to 2018, I was the founder and lead developer at Onecast, a podcast studio that built WebRTC-based recording and editing software. NYT, CNBC, and ESPN used it at various points.

From 2012 to 2014, I worked on software for testing automotive LiDAR and radar sensors at Autoliv, writing code in Java and C.

I studied Computer Science & Electrical Engineering at WPI.