Josh Curry is a seasoned software engineer with roughly two decades of experience, specializing in Microsoft enterprise technologies, debugging, performance analysis, and resolution of complex, mission-critical issues. He spent a long tenure at Microsoft as an Escalation Engineer and Senior Support Escalation Engineer, mentoring teams and improving customer support efficiency across global organizations. Josh pairs deep low-level troubleshooting skills with practical development contributions—such as extending media support and fixing culture-specific data handling in the high-profile dotnet/Open-XML-SDK open-source project. Based in Frisco, Texas, he combines hands-on incident response with a measured focus on long-term reliability and optimization. An atypical strength is his formal study of Japanese and East Asian studies, which complements his collaborative work across international support teams.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, East Asian Studies (Japanese), Bachelor’s Degree, East Asian Studies (Japanese) at University of Maryland University College
Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, 4.0, Associate of Science - AS, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Advancing Technology
Japanese Language, 4.0, Japanese Language, 4.0 at Collin County Community College
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `dotnet/open-xml-sdk` repository by adding features and fixing bugs related to media type support and data handling within the Open XML SDK. Their work involved extending the functionality to include MP4 media types and addressing issues with culture-specific decimal separators. Furthermore, the user made changes related to a merge with a remote-tracking branch and a revert of previous part numbering behavior.
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