Josh Purcell
Principal Solution Architect at Redpanda Data
Hurst, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Purcell is a Principal Solution Architect with 13 years of experience applying distributed systems and event-driven architecture to real-world problems. He spent over a decade at IBM bridging research, products, and clients to co-create scalable solutions using agile, TDD, pair programming, and continuous delivery. At Prodigy he moved prototypes into production, building game-based learning products that make math engaging for children worldwide. Now at Redpanda he focuses on simplifying event-driven development and building tools that expose high-performance streaming features without the operational overhead. Josh combines hands-on engineering, client-facing solution design, and developer coaching—often translating research ideas into producible systems. Based in Hurst, Texas, he brings a rare mix of enterprise-scale delivery and product-driven empathy for developer experience.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems and Services, Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems and Services at The University of Texas at Arlington
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Github Skills (200)
end-to-end-encryption10
realtime10
messaging10
identity10
authentication10
security10
redpanda10
stream-processing10
microservices10
cpp10
encryption10
streaming10
cqrs10
browser10
rabbitmq10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vuldin/kafql
Nov 2021 - Dec 2023
A container system for handling kafka event transformation in graphQL and displaying real-time results.
Contributions:5 PRs, 7 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 1 month
transformationreactkuberneteshandlingevent-transformation
vuldin/trie
Apr 2018 - Dec 2023
Rank text by best match to seeded words and phrases
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 21 pushes in 5 years 9 months
stemrichtextreactphrasestrie
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