Joe Doss
Staff Platform Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJoe Doss is a Staff Platform Engineer with 11+ years building and scaling Linux-first infrastructure and platform teams, now based in Chicago. He blends deep systems craftsmanship—over 20 years of Linux use and hands-on experience managing hundreds of servers—with people-first leadership, having grown and run ops and support teams from startup to scale. Joe has driven platform and CI/CD improvements in open-source projects like forem/forem, migrating containers to Fedora and streamlining Buildkite pipelines, and he champions FOSS to help others improve their lives. His background spans roles from VP at WiredTree to Director of Engineering Operations at Kenna Security and principal systems work at DEV Community, giving him a rare mix of strategy, policy, and tactical execution. Known for creating non-commodity, high-value products, he focuses relentlessly on exceptional customer and coworker experience. He pairs a BA from Michigan State with a practical knack for turning operational complexity into repeatable, well-documented systems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Telecommunication Information Studies and Media Communication, Telecommunication Information Studies and Media Communication at Michigan State University
English
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Github Skills (14)
bash10
buildkit10
docker10
buildkite10
containerization10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby9
automation9
automations9
rails9
userscripts9
script9
ruby-rails9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
forem/forem
May 2020 - Jul 2021
For empowering community 🌱
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:60 reviews, 44 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe focused on improving the containerization and deployment processes for the `forem/forem` repository. They refactored the container setup, migrating from Alpine Linux to Fedora Linux and adjusting the build process with multi-stage builds. Significant contributions include modifying entrypoint scripts, integrating environment variables, and creating scripts for container building and pruning, enhancing the CI/CD pipeline with Buildkite integration.
reactrailsrubyempoweringfeedback
jdoss/dockerhole
Feb 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:13 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 5 years 3 months
malwaredockerdns
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