Josh Curl
Co-Founder & CTO at Hightouch
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Curl is a San Francisco–based founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and developer tools. As Co-Founder & CTO of Hightouch and previously Deviceplane, he combines product-led engineering with hands-on systems work—early at Rancher where he contributed to RancherOS, Kubernetes integrations, and security hardening that supported a major exit. His open-source contributions to projects like docker/libcompose and rancher/cli show deep expertise in container tooling, configuration parsing, and practical DevOps automation. Comfortable moving between low-level OS/security work and higher-level API/product development, he has a track record of turning operational complexity into usable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (29)
content-management-system10
docker10
security-hardening10
scripting10
schema-design10
environment-variables10
dockers10
selinux10
script10
go10
content-management10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
system-administration10
sh10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rancher/rancher.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:80 commits, 83 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the documentation of RancherOS, making numerous updates to the sidebar navigation and content organization. Their commits demonstrate a focus on structuring the documentation, including the introduction of new categories for storage, networking, and cloud-config. They updated the documentation to include the latest features and information.
docker/libcompose
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
*Unmaintained/Deprecated* An experimental go library providing Compose-like functionality
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:86 commits, 85 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `docker/libcompose` repository by implementing new features related to environment variable interpolation within the project's configuration files. This involved modifying core files, including `interpolation.go` and `interpolation_test.go`, to support variable substitution. The user also addressed bugs and improved functionality, like enabling the use of strings in numeric fields and adding various features to parsing and validation logic. Additionally, the user made significant contributions in integration tests.
golanggo-libraryandroidcomposedocker
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