Joel Holmes
Senior Software Engineer at EasyPost
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Holmes is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience crafting cloud-native and microservice architectures, currently contributing at EasyPost from Pittsburgh. He has led multiple monolith-to-microservice migrations and built modular fleets and reporting platforms that pipeline device data through AWS IoT, Lambda, and containerized services. His background spans robotics-focused distributed systems (Raft + gRPC), Kubernetes-integrated Go services for on-prem and cloud deployments, and pragmatic use of serverless patterns to enable scale. Joel blends hands-on engineering with systems design, often turning pilots into spun-out products, and brings a curiosity-driven mindset reflected in his thoughtful GitHub bio quote.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Stackoverflow
993reputation
85kreached
12answers
34questions
Github Skills (64)
golangci-lint9
hexagonal-architecture9
golang9
linter9
api9
refactoring9
docker8
go8
pipeline8
terraform8
faas8
netlify7
devops7
r7
rstudio7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
holmes89/hello-api
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Example API to Demonstrate CD Pipeline
Contributions:163 commits, 4 PRs, 73 pushes in 1 year 5 months
apicd-pipelinepipelinedevopsexample-api
holmes89/alexandria
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:153 pushes, 12 branches, 14 issues in 1 year 2 months
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