Josh Backfield
Senior Software Engineer at SPARC, an Agile Systems Delivery Hub of Booz Allen Hamilton
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Backfield is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance security and analytics systems, currently contracting on the VA's VBMS project. He specializes in bridging low-level C and multithreaded systems with modern web stacks—rewriting core broker systems with pthreads and migrating UIs from C/Gtk to Scala/Liftweb—and has a strong grounding in Java, Spring MVC, and SOA. Josh combines deep log-normalization and data-mining expertise across diverse security devices with practical tooling: automated reporting pipelines in Perl, a centrally managed password storage system, and CI-driven functional testing. He mentors engineers in functional programming, ScalaTest, and system design, and has repeatedly turned operational insight into durable software improvements that prevent deadlocks and improve analyst workflows. Based in Myrtle Beach, he holds an M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul and prefers pragmatic, performance-first solutions that scale from sockets to web services.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, 3.9, M.S., Computer Science, 3.9 at DePaul UniversityB.S., Electronic Systems, 3.35, B.S., Electronic Systems, 3.35 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (2)
functional-programming5
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jbackfield/BecomingFunctional
May 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 4 months
functional-programming
fustigatedcat/heystk
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:18 PRs, 41 pushes, 20 branches in 1 month
community-drivensiemdocker
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