Josh Loar
Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs
Mount Airy, Maryland, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Loar is an Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs with a decade-plus career focused on large-scale systems, reliability, and customer-facing architecture. He transitioned from deep technical support and professional services roles at IBM and Pivotal into solutions and enterprise architecture at VMware and Cockroach Labs, blending operational experience with cloud-native engineering. Based in Mount Airy, Maryland, he excels at translating complex distributed database and infrastructure challenges into practical, deployable solutions for enterprise customers. Josh’s background in high-availability and big data support gives him a pragmatic, post-mortem-driven approach to design and incident prevention. He’s comfortable at the intersection of product, support, and engineering, often guiding customers from PoC to production readiness. Colleagues value his ability to demystify distributed systems while keeping an eye on operational simplicity.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
go10
cockroachdb10
sql10
sql-database10
database10
high-availability9
cloud-native9
distributed-database9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
jloar-roach/health-check-scripts
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
jloar-roach/cockroach
May 2022 - May 2022
CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql
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