Joseph Lust
Staff Software Engineer at MDDetails
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Lust is a Staff Software Engineer and recognized Google Developer Expert in Cloud Architecture with 14+ years of hands-on experience building distributed, NoSQL-backed cloud systems that prioritize scale, low latency, and security. He blends full-stack expertise—from algorithms and databases to SPA front ends—with a strong DevSecOps and SOC2 compliance background, currently leading distributed cloud design and security at mabl while co-founding analytics and consumer products. His work at MC10 and elsewhere shows deep experience deploying ML-driven pipelines and high-traffic APIs using technologies like Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Redis, and cloud platforms. A practical polyglot who quickly masters new stacks (Scala, TypeScript, Java, Python, Matlab), he also contributes to front-end tooling—having added library-detection capabilities to a popular Chrome extension—bringing an engineer’s curiosity and entrepreneurial grit to complex production systems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Engineering Management, (Engineering, Management, IP Law), 3.89, Masters in Engineering Management, (Engineering, Management, IP Law), 3.89 at Duke UniversityBiomedical Engineering, Optical Engineering, 3.93, Biomedical Engineering, Optical Engineering, 3.93 at University of Rochester
java, scala, html5, oracle, javascipt, php, matlab, c#, css3, gwt, svg, sql, python, typescript
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Github Skills (49)
javascript10
browser-extension10
http10
gwt10
detectors10
libcurl10
detector10
chrome10
curl10
mysql9
ssl9
ajax9
algorithm9
java9
spring9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
johnmichel/Library-Detector-for-Chrome
Nov 2012 - May 2014
🔍 Extension that detects which JavaScript libraries are running on a page
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the development of a JavaScript library detector Chrome extension. Their work focused on adding detection capabilities for various JavaScript libraries and frameworks, including GWT, Highcharts, and Bootstrap, by analyzing the presence of specific JavaScript objects or code patterns within web pages. The user implemented new detection methods and refined existing ones to improve the extension's ability to identify the libraries used by a website. They also added features such as icon associations for detected libraries.
jsinteropdetectionjavascript-frameworkjavascriptchrome
lauflabs/gwt-garmin-api
Aug 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:57 commits in 1 year 1 month
apiapi-sgarmingwt
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