Josh Beemster
VP Platform Engineering
Saint-Aubin-Château-Neuf, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Beemster is a platform engineering leader with 11 years of experience building resilient, cloud-emulating platforms and developer tooling, now serving as Director of Platform Engineering at LocalStack. He has progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles at Snowplow—shaping data pipelines, private SaaS deployments, and global SRE operations while owning security and ISO 27001 commitments. A hands-on polyglot developer who favors Go, Josh is deeply experienced with IaC and the HashiStack (Terraform/OpenTofu, Consul, Nomad, Vault) and has driven large automation projects that moved Snowplow from manual ops to fully automated, multi-tenant deployments. He also contributes to open-source analytics tooling, improving Snowplow’s JavaScript tracker and backend adapters for robust data collection and transformation. Based in Burgundy, France, he blends product-minded leadership with practical engineering, often stepping into implementation while scaling teams and infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Penrith High SchoolBachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Charles Sturt University
English, French
Github Skills (16)
json10
snowplow10
javascript10
trackpoint10
activity-tracker10
scala10
data-pipelines9
gruntjs9
data-pipeline9
g9
uuid9
aws8
thrift8
amazon-redshift8
etl8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
snowplow/snowplow
Oct 2014 - Aug 2019
The leader in Next-Generation Customer Data Infrastructure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Engineer
Back-end Developer & Data EngineerContributions:3 releases, 568 commits, 13 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh implemented and updated features for the Mailchimp adapter, focusing on transforming collector payload data into a valid and structured format. Their work involved modifying code to handle different event types, nested JSON data structures, and correct timestamp formatting. The user also contributed to creating Redshift database definitions and JSON paths, indicating a focus on data processing and storage within the Snowplow ecosystem.
gcpdatabehavioralserver-sidedata-warehouse
snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker
Jan 2016 - Aug 2019
Snowplow event tracker for client-side and server-side JavaScript. Add analytics to your websites, web apps and servers.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 23 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the Snowplow JavaScript tracker by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. This included attaching device sent timestamps to events, refactoring the domainUserId to a UUID, and adding a setting to automatically use the top-level domain for duid. The user also integrated support for Optimizely contexts, added several methods for tracking enhanced ecommerce actions, and refactored enhanced ecommerce functions.
snowplow-javascript-trackeranalyticstrackerclient-sidesnowplowanalytics
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