Josh Lewis
Principal AI Engineer at Heroku
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Lewis is a seasoned software engineer and leader based in Memphis with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering reliable development and delivery pipelines. He blends development, DevOps, and delivery expertise—evidenced by contributions to Heroku's widely used Node.js buildpack where he improved binaries, dependency handling, caching, and multi-version testing for GitHub Actions. Trained in mechanical engineering and mathematics, he approaches software problems with a systems-minded, analytical perspective that helps bridge engineering and operational goals. Josh excels at improving build and deployment robustness, mentoring teams through the lifecycle from code to production, and translating complex requirements into pragmatic solutions. Colleagues rely on him to reduce deployment friction and raise confidence in continuous delivery across diverse environments.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering Mathematics at Christian Brothers University
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Github Skills (14)
bash10
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nodejs10
cicd10
yarnpkg9
buildpack9
rails-migrations6
units-of-measurement6
physics6
rubygems6
dsl6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Heroku's classic buildpack for Node.js applications.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:138 reviews, 111 commits, 184 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the project's build and deployment process. Their commits included updates to the buildpack's binaries, dependencies, and caching mechanisms. They also focused on improving testing by including support for multiple Node.js versions and configuring the environment for GitHub Actions.
heroku-buildpackherokunode-jsbuildpacknode-buildpack
heroku/pliny-librato
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Librato metrics reporter for Pliny::Metrics
Contributions:40 commits, 10 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 months
reporterlibratografanaprometheusmetrics
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