Josh Backstein
Software Engineer at CrowdStrike
Meridian, Idaho, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Backstein is a software engineer with a decade of professional experience who currently builds reliable systems at CrowdStrike after roles at Clearwater Analytics and internships at Facebook. He brings a practical full-stack perspective, having shipped web services in Node.js, built REST APIs in Go, and managed both Windows and Linux servers. Josh pairs strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on low-level curiosity—his favorite project was a toy kernel that deepened his understanding of how system components interact. He has a track record of performance-focused work, including quant-focused libraries that improved risk calculations by orders of magnitude. Based in Meridian, Idaho, he’s completing a BS in Computer Science and spends free time exploring new technologies and side projects. Colleagues describe him as a collaborative developer who writes elegant, efficient, and readable code across shared codebases.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joshbackstein/threejs-tetris
Feb 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:96 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
joshbackstein/dotfiles
Mar 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:44 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
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