Josh Pinkney
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarJosh Pinkney is a software engineer with four years of experience focused on developer tooling and cloud infrastructure, currently contributing to IDE toolkits at AWS. He works across front-end and back-end boundaries, notably improving VS Code AWS Toolkit features like one-click schema viewing and robust cross-platform reconnection for CAWS. Josh also contributes to awslabs/goformation, enhancing CloudFormation and SAM schema support for serverless APIs—evidence of deep familiarity with CloudFormation, SAM, and Go-based SDKs. Based in Canada, he blends practical engineering with a propensity for improving developer experience and observability in cloud workflows. Colleagues would describe him as a detail-oriented problem solver who turns complex schema and protocol edge cases into reliable, test-covered features.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (20)
typescript10
vscode-extension10
xml-schema10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
go10
aws10
typescript-types10
yaml10
golang10
typescripts10
schema10
api-design9
json-schema9
parserator9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-toolkit-vscode
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Amazon Q, CodeCatalyst, Local Lambda debug, SAM/CFN syntax, ECS Terminal, AWS resources
Role in this project:
Backend & Frontend Developer
Backend & Frontend DeveloperContributions:936 reviews, 117 commits, 702 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the eventSchemas and CAWS functionalities within the AWS Toolkit for VSCode. They implemented one-click schema viewing and added functionality for cross-platform reconnection mechanisms within CAWS. Furthermore, they addressed several bugs related to YAML schema application and HTTP error logging. They also added SAM JSON-schema regression tests, and enhanced the CAWS connection setup by integrating a new cross-platform re-connect mechanism.
awss3cloudformationcdkamazon
awslabs/goformation
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
GoFormation is a Go library for working with CloudFormation templates.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `goformation` library by enhancing the schema definitions to support new features within AWS CloudFormation. Their work focused on adding new properties for AWS::Serverless::Api resources, including DomainConfiguration and request parameters, demonstrating a deep understanding of SAM and CloudFormation. The commits involved modifying Go code, and schema definitions, indicating a focus on backend logic and data structure manipulation to accurately represent cloud resources.
gocloudformationgolangawsparser
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