Josh Dewald
Principal Architect - Backend at Recorded Future
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Dewald is a Principal Architect with 17 years crafting resilient, high-performance backend and networked systems, currently leading internet scanning architecture at Recorded Future from Las Vegas. He blends hands-on systems programming (including Rust eBPF tools and Kubernetes operators) with pragmatic API and operational design to stop scans within seconds and scale multi-region deployments. Previously at StackPath he built global load-balancing and traffic-engineering prototypes, reduced egress CPU via eBPF, and created control planes based on XDS—work that spans research-informed experimentation to production rollouts. Known for digging into cluster-wide network root causes and translating observability gaps into durable tooling, he balances deep technical problem solving with mentoring and cross-team influence. An unexpected thread through his career is repeatedly turning research ideas into deployable systems that measurably improve network and CDN behavior.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Nevada, RenoDiploma, Diploma at Silverado High School
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Github Skills (89)
scanner10
java10
nginx10
vulnerability-assessment9
prometheus-exporter9
security9
proxy9
vulnerability-detection9
elasticsearch9
apache-flink9
caching9
restful9
vulnerability9
dsl9
security-scanner9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jdewald/qjnes
May 2016 - Jul 2018
Java-based NES and C64 Emulator
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 years 3 months
emulatornessegaemulationnes-emulator
algorocom/wafw00f
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
WAFW00F allows one to identify and fingerprint Web Application Firewall (WAF) products protecting a website.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 9 months
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