Josh Howard
Senior Engineering Manager at Cloudflare
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Howard is a Senior Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building data platforms and leading engineering teams, currently driving data platform work at Cloudflare from Atlanta. He combines hands-on backend and full-stack development with management, having contributed substantial features to Cloudflare Workers (Durable Objects, D1/SQLite support) and to the Trino ecosystem (Parquet writer, Hive/S3 integration). Past roles at Starburst, EY, and as a Trino contributor show deep expertise in distributed query engines, data ingestion (Amundsen/Dremio), and test automation for data clients. Josh’s background in computational science and applied mathematics underpins a strong focus on robust, testable systems and performance-sensitive engineering. He’s comfortable shipping low-level runtime changes and CLI tooling while coaching teams to deliver at scale. An often-overlooked strength is his blend of research-oriented problem solving and practical productionization—evident from contributions spanning runtime internals to integration tests.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computational Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computational and Applied Mathematics at Kennesaw State University
English
Github Skills (42)
trino10
javascript10
c-language10
sqlite10
pytest10
python10
data-engineering10
testing10
databases10
extraction10
flake10
metadata10
cloudflare-workers10
java10
javas10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/workerd
Sep 2023 - Jun 2026
The JavaScript / Wasm runtime that powers Cloudflare Workers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 17 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the workerd runtime's functionality and maintainability. Their contributions included adding a compile option for SQLITE math functions and reverting a websocket-related race condition fix. They also updated the SQLite version and added support for tracking rows read and written in SQLite. Additionally, they integrated RPC calls, optimizing Durable Object limits within the runtime.
cloudflare-workersjavascript
trinodb/trino-python-client
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Python client for Trino
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the `trino-python-client` by adding and updating integration tests. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a flake8 test and the correction of code to pass that test. These tests cover various functionalities of the client, including query parameter handling, result iteration, and error checking.
pythontrino
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