Joel Edwards
Senior Software Engineer II at Lark Health
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Edwards is a Senior Software Engineer II with 14 years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across startups and established engineering teams, currently based in Albuquerque. He has strong backend and systems expertise—spanning Python, Java, C/C++, distributed databases, and cloud infrastructure—and a track record of improving core functionality and performance in production libraries. At companies like Lark Health, Simon Data, and npm, he has moved between senior engineering and data/SRE roles, delivering APIs, highly available microservices, and performance-driven platform improvements. His open-source contributions include meaningful refactors to pexpect’s pxssh module, showing attention to compatibility, prompt synchronization, and low-level IO behavior. Comfortable in both R&D and ops-heavy environments, he combines hands-on coding with architectural thinking and pragmatic automation. Collected experience across seismic telemetry, search, and modern SaaS platforms gives him a rare mix of systems-level fluency and product-focused delivery.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Java Programming, Certificate Java Programming at California State University - East BayBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (9)
pexpect10
code-optimization10
python10
ssh9
debug9
debugging9
algorithms8
algorithm8
testing8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
pexpect/pexpect
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:12 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Joel primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `pxssh.py` module, which is a key component of the library. Their work involved optimizing the `try_read_prompt` function, removing redundant code, and adapting to Python 2/3 compatibility. They also made adjustments to the `read_nonblocking` method in `__init__.py` and added improvements to prompt synchronization. Overall, the commits indicate a focus on the core functionality and performance of the library.
pythoncontrollingpython-moduleprogramsterminal
joeledwards/node-aqui
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
Simple, human-friendly CLI HTTP client
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
http-clienthttp-clihuman-friendlynodejscli
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