Joseph Korkames
Software Engineer at Netflix
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Korkames is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating edge and CDN infrastructure, currently focused on content delivery challenges at Netflix. He has a strong SRE and platform background from roles at Edgio, Edgecast, Verizon Media, and Limelight, where he designed automation, config propagation, and purge pipelines that keep web-scale traffic flowing. Known as an "edge-side toolsmith and HTTP gumshoe," he blends low-level protocol fluency with pragmatic tooling—evidenced by contributions to the macOS ddcctl utility that improved hardware control and usability. Based in Phoenix, he excels at incident triage, bespoke customer solutions, and making complex distributed systems maintainable. Colleagues rely on him for quietly effective improvements that reduce operational toil and surface hard-to-find edge conditions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Sophomore, Sophomore at Arizona School for the Arts
English
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
objective-c10
dd10
macos10
c1110
command-line-tool9
os-detection6
wkwebview6
webview6
ios6
swift6
bash6
webkit6
cocoa6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
kfix/ddcctl
Jul 2014 - Nov 2022
DDC monitor controls (brightness) for Mac OSX command line
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 54 commits, 38 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the ddcctl project, which is a command-line utility for controlling monitor brightness on macOS. Their work focused on improving the codebase's functionality and maintainability. This included refactoring code, adding new features such as DPMS control, fixing bugs related to DDC write operations, and improving the user interface. They also made significant improvements by incorporating code from external sources and addressing issues reported by the community.
command-linemacosddcmonitorosx
kfix/MacPin
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
a webapp container & site specific browser made from WebKit.swift and JavaScriptCore
Contributions:20 releases, 756 commits, 9 PRs in 7 years 11 months
javascriptcoreswiftwkwebviewwebkitosx
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