Joseph Kratz
Lead Platform Engineer
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Kratz is a Lead Platform Engineer in Columbus, Ohio with 11+ years building resilient, cloud-native platforms for retail, e-commerce, and banking. He blends hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin, Go, C#, Python and SQL with production Kubernetes/Azure operations, helm charting, and container image strategy to enable faster, more reliable delivery across teams. As a former technical lead and design authority, he routinely reviews architectures, mentors engineers, and drives cross-team upgrades—most recently shaping Victoria’s Secret platform and AKS operations. He has a track record of moving projects from prototype to production—from ATM and robotics experiments at JPMorgan Chase to large-scale commerce APIs—and cares about cost optimization and observability. Colleagues rely on him to balance pragmatic engineering with modern practices (microservices, CI/CD, SRE), and he’s equally likely to be found exploring new tech or coaching junior developers. Outside work he’s a gamer and dog dad, which helps explain his pragmatic, collaborative leadership style.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Grove City High SchoolBachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Capital University
English
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Github Skills (61)
spring10
spring-security10
java10
spring-boot10
springframework10
connected9
vmware9
charts9
kotlin9
helm9
mediator9
segment8
mediatr8
effort8
bitnami8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jkratz55/grafana
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 years 5 months
visualizeobservabilitygrafanaprometheusmonitoring
jkratz55/kefka
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
A wrapper around Confluent Go Kafka library
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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