Josh Hicks
Enterprise Architect at Akamai Technologies
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Hicks is an enterprise architect with 12 years of hands-on cloud and CDN experience, currently shaping solutions at Akamai in Seattle. He has deep expertise in AWS, network protocols (HTTP, DNS, SSL, TCP/IP), CDN design, and automation—having redesigned Amazon’s CDN configurations and helped build AMS automation patterns at AWS. Josh blends customer-facing consulting with practical engineering, authoring internal tooling for CDN documentation and portals and contributing automation scripts to company GitHub. His background in network and communications management plus a Python certificate informs a pragmatic approach to building reliable, scalable web and media delivery systems. Notably, he has repeatedly served as lead architect for major accounts (Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Sony), mentoring new architects while improving testing and operational best practices.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate in Python Programming, Certificate in Python Programming at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (BS) Network and Communications Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Network and Communications Management at DeVry University
Github Skills (26)
maintenance9
authentication9
vertica9
akamai9
maintenance-mode9
odbc8
cassandra7
authorization7
powershell7
data-analysis5
golang5
data-visualization5
sql5
sql-server5
snowflake5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akamai/AkamaiOPEN-edgegrid-powershell
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
Akamai OPEN EdgeGrid Powershell authorization wrapper
Contributions:12 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 4 years
akamaipowershelledgegridauthorizationauthentication
johicks/IntroPython2016
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:22 pushes in 2 months
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