Josh Humber
Lead Consultant, Software Developer at Thoughtworks
Singapore
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Top SchoolJosh Humber is a Lead Consultant and seasoned software engineer with nine years’ experience designing and operating backend systems for high-traffic consumer products, currently based in Singapore. He has led engineering teams and technical migrations at Carousell—moving a Django monolith to Go microservices and building low-latency, high-availability platforms such as a payments service and live insights pipeline. Comfortable across Go, Python, Kubernetes and a broad data/event stack (Postgres, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch), he champions testing, observability and pragmatic hiring practices that prioritise architecture and collaboration over rote algorithm drills. At Thoughtworks he combines hands-on development with consultancy-level architecture and delivery coaching, and his background in physics from Oxford informs a methodical, measurement-driven approach to systems design.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St Paul's SchoolMaster's Degree, Physics, 1st Class, Master's Degree, Physics, 1st Class at University of Oxford
French, Italian
Stackoverflow
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51reached
1answer
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Github Skills (39)
rest-api10
restful-api9
json9
spec9
java9
spring9
proxy9
swagger9
spring-boot9
golang9
grpc9
openapi9
go8
programming-language8
grpc-gateway8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
humjosh/gomodexample
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
For testing go modules and versioning
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
golangtestinggo-modulesversioninggo-testing
humjosh/simple-social-media-site
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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