Joelle Maslak
Senior Network Engineer at Netflix
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoelle Maslak is a Senior Network Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale content distribution networks, currently managing Netflix’s global CDN backbone and edge systems. She combines deep protocol-level expertise in BGP, TCP optimization, and Linux with hands-on coding in Python, Perl, C and back-end systems to reliably deliver high-volume streaming traffic. Previously she optimized CenturyLink’s CDN performance and built measurement platforms to monitor global internet health, balancing cost, peering, and performance at scale. An active open-source contributor, Joelle has improved perlbrew’s ability to fetch and manage Perl releases and regularly solves algorithmic challenges across languages like Perl and Raku, reflecting a lifelong programmer who first coded in 1982. Based in Golden, Colorado, she also leads employee inclusion efforts as Global Lead for Netflix’s Trans* ERG and is pursuing a second bachelor’s in Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, blending technical leadership with community and policy engagement.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at Thomas Edison State CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at University of WyomingWorking Towards Second Bachelor's degree, Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies, Working Towards Second Bachelor's degree, Gender, Women, and Sexualities Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver
English, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
solve10
algorithms10
perl10
cpan10
raku10
solution10
api9
apim9
regular-expression8
webscraping8
version-control7
thread-synchronization6
multithreading6
testing5
bash4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Apr 2019 - Nov 2019
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:123 commits, 102 PRs, 2 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joelle primarily contributes solutions to "The Weekly Challenge" problems, demonstrating proficiency in various programming languages, most notably Perl and Raku. Their commits involve implementing code to solve specific programming tasks, as evidenced by the code differences provided. These solutions span a range of problems, from basic string manipulations to algorithmic challenges. The user consistently provides working code snippets, showcasing problem-solving ability within the context of the challenges.
nim-langknowledge-baseemacsmemberszig
gugod/App-perlbrew
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Joelle primarily contributed to the `App::perlbrew` Perl module. Their commits focused on enhancing the module's functionality related to fetching Perl versions, specifically by allowing the use of HTTPS URLs and integrating with the Metacpan API. The user also made improvements to the URL handling, whitespace removal, and the overall reliability of fetching available Perl distributions. These changes collectively improve the module's ability to manage Perl installations.
installationsperl
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