Josh Parsons
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorJosh Parsons is a seasoned software engineer and SRE who specializes in building scalable cloud-native systems and driving production reliability across AWS and Azure. With about eight years of experience, he has led real-time data streaming work with Kafka, managed distributed services in Go, and overseen core infrastructure like Redis, MySQL, and Memcached. At Amperity, he championed observability and incident response, hosting weekly Observability Office Hours and contributing to a company-wide 26% reduction in on-call pages through sustainable production practices, while also guiding Terraform and Kubernetes migrations. He currently focuses on designing and operating cloud-native services at honeycomb.io, expanding capabilities around data ingestion and processing at scale. Josh is a strong cross-functional collaborator who prioritizes psychologically safe teams and clear customer-centric communication. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and is based in Seattle, WA.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
react7
docker7
devops5
paas5
rum4
slack-bot3
slackbot3
bots2
clojure2
go-testing1
terraform1
monitoring1
observability1
testing1
bot-framework1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jparsons04/adventofcode
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
quintilesims/layer0
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Build, Manage, and Deploy Your Applications
Contributions:2 releases, 62 commits, 86 PRs in 8 months
reactpaasdockerdevops
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