Josh Dimarsky
Senior Software Engineer at Blueflame AI
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Dimarsky is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven systems and API-first services across AI and media platforms. He has moved from hedge fund data engineering and trading operations into senior roles at Audible and Amazon Alexa AI, and now focuses on AI product engineering at Blueflame AI. Josh contributes to high-profile open-source tooling such as pandas—adding pluggable SQL performance hooks and improving GroupBy behavior—demonstrating attention to both performance and developer ergonomics. Comfortable in backend systems, data pipelines, and production-scale services, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a penchant for simplifying inefficient workflows. Based in the United States, he brings cross-domain experience from finance to consumer AI, offering a rare mix of quantitative, operational, and large-scale software expertise.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Touro UniversityTalmudical Yeshiva of PhiladelphiaBachelor of Science (BS) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor of Science (BS) Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Excelsior UniversityBeth Medrash Govoha
English, Hebrew, Russian
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Github Skills (15)
pandas10
python10
data-analysis9
sql9
documentation8
data-science8
sqlalchemy7
multiline6
azure-blob-storage6
azure6
time-series6
hierarchical-data6
conda6
multi-index6
azure-cosmos-db6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
pandas-dev/pandas
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 5 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to improving the pandas library's functionality and documentation. They addressed a deprecation warning related to DataFrameGroupBy indexing, modifying code and adding documentation to address the issue. The user also introduced a new `engine` keyword in the `to_sql` method, enabling pluggable SQL performance and updating related documentation. Furthermore, they added the bcpandas library to the documentation's ecosystem section.
pythondatalabeled-datamanipulationdataframes
yehoshuadimarsky/python-ssas
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
A proof of concept to integrate Python and Microsoft Analysis Services
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 years 9 months
pythonmicrosoft-analysis-servicesanalysis-servicesmicrosoftintegrate
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