Josh Elster
Platform Engineering Manager
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Elster is a Platform Engineering Manager in Chicago with 14 years of experience building and guiding teams to deliver resilient, business-focused software. He blends deep hands-on expertise in C#, .NET, Azure, Kubernetes, and microservices with a strong background in enterprise architecture, integration, and business rules engines. Known for empathetic leadership, Josh helps teams balance technical excellence and practical process improvements to accelerate value delivery. His career spans hands-on consulting and product-focused roles at InRule and HDVI, where he moved from solutions architecture into platform leadership. He has a track record of implementing DevOps practices, cloud-native patterns, and integration strategies across diverse industries. Outside the obvious tech stack, Josh’s strength lies in translating complex business rules into auditable, scalable systems that reduce operational friction.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Baccalaureate, Post-Baccalaureate at College of DuPageB.A., B.A. at University of Miami
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (92)
windows10
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Github contributions (5)
jelster/space-truckers
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
A game of getting stuff from Point A to Point B... IN SPAAAACCE!
Contributions:2 releases, 25 reviews, 392 commits in 2 years 1 month
gamebabylonjswebgl2webgpugame-of
jelster/Samples
Sep 2017 - Jun 2020
A collection of samples to demonstrate InRule features
Contributions:42 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 9 months
inruleinrule-featurescsharp
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