Josh Mottaz
Director Of Platform Engineering
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Mottaz is a Director of Platform Engineering based in New York with a decade of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, especially around API design, diagnostics, and observability. He leads teams while remaining hands-on—recently overhauling a Golang message-passing layer that processes billions of device messages monthly and driving a Kubernetes migration for improved stability. His background spans supercomputing diagnostics at Cray to architecting Kafka-based video aggregation and feed APIs that handled tens of millions of clips per day at Canary. Pragmatic about developer experience, he prioritizes good documentation, metrics, and diagnosability, and has a history of shipping tooling that reduced operational load and query volume. Notably detail-oriented, he has built CLI and visualization tools used for diagnostics and triage across hardware and cloud systems. He enjoys dabbling in web tech in his free time and prefers interesting, non-boring problems over generic roles.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Github Skills (46)
minecraft9
spot-instances8
backup8
terrain-generation7
aws7
terrain6
junit6
listener6
hugo-theme6
shortcode6
aws-s35
rule5
cryptography5
procedural-generation5
java5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gerhalt/cryptopals
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
Solutions to Cryptopals challenges in Python 3
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 5 months
python-3cryptographycryptopalspython
gerhalt/jmottaz
Jun 2016 - Feb 2020
My Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
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