Joe Brockhaus
Senior Software Engineer at Mojang Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Brockhaus is a senior software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a 20-year background in software, currently building core tools and 24/7 services for Mojang Studios' Minecraft franchise from Redmond. He specializes in cloud-native C#/.NET backend systems, Azure platform engineering, Kubernetes/AKS, and scalable service integration for player safety, moderation, and support workflows. Joe has led small engineering teams to design, ship, and operate customer-facing platforms and automation tooling at Rackspace and Dell, driving migrations between cloud stacks and mentoring peers through trainings and internal knowledge programs. Comfortable across full-stack, serverless, and infrastructure-as-code domains, he pairs practical operational experience (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Helm) with hands-on API and automation work. An engineer who balances customer-facing onboarding and on-call responsibilities, he’s known for turning complex product and safety requirements into reliable, production-grade services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at University of CincinnatiDiploma, Full International Baccalaureate, Diploma, Full International Baccalaureate at Withrow University High School
German, Latin
Stackoverflow
2,765reputation
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48answers
48questions
azure-functions
top-5%
Github Skills (112)
windows10
azure-functions10
microsoft-azure10
azure-pipelines10
arm10
azure-webjobs-sdk10
dotnet10
sdk10
powershell10
azure10
microsoft10
azure-sdk9
katana9
azure-devops9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
JoeBrockhaus/AzureAutomationVsoGitSync
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
A PowerShell Module for automating deployment of Runbooks (more later?) from a VSO GIT Repository to an Azure Automation account. Inspired by the Microsoft System Center Automation Team's v1 Sync-VsoGitRunbook
Contributions:21 commits, 24 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years
centergit-repositorysyncdeploymentpowershell
JoeBrockhaus/authservices
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
aspauthenticationsaml2asp-netoauth2
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