Summary
Josette Grinslade is a backend engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems for high-scale consumer platforms, currently working on identity at Epic Games in San Francisco. She previously developed payments infrastructure at Twitch and held progressive engineering roles at Target, bringing production-grade backend and systems sensibilities to consumer-facing services. A Colorado State University CS graduate, she combines hands-on implementation with leadership experience as a teaching assistant and research contributor during her studies. Passionate about design and advocacy, Josette actively promotes inclusion for women and underrepresented groups in tech, pairing technical craft with community impact. Unusually for a backend specialist, she blends a payments and identity focus, giving her a strong perspective on security, privacy, and user-facing trust systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Colorado State University