Josh Reese
Senior Software Engineer at OBM, Inc.
Cockeysville, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Reese is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade systems work and production backend engineering across startups and academic labs. He designs and optimizes APIs and data pipelines using Python, Django/DRF, MySQL, Redis, BigQuery and cloud services (GCP/AWS), with a recent focus on migrating high-volume tables to hybrid Redis+BigQuery architectures and pruning query explosions into single-digit queries. His background includes deep distributed-systems and compiler research from Purdue and Edinburgh—work that informed tools for program synthesis, reliable broadcast, and performance-focused query compilation—so he brings a rigorous, systems-first mindset to everyday product problems. Josh also mentors and teaches (Coding Dojo) and has led engineering teams up to VP level, combining hands-on coding with process and tooling improvements like Git worktrees and Sentry-driven performance monitoring. Comfortable across many languages and paradigms (from C and Rust to Javascript and Scala), he mixes pragmatic engineering with curiosity-driven experiments that surface non-obvious optimizations in real-world services.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at The University of EdinburghBS, Computer Science, Audio Technology, BS, Computer Science, Audio Technology at American UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at University of MarylandComputer Science, Computer Science at Purdue University
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Github Skills (122)
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synthesis9
compiler-construction9
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wolfram-language8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CodingDojoDallas/mean_sept_2018
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:34 commits, 23 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 month
droptablestar/mediaserver
May 2021 - Sep 2022
docker-based plex & usenet media server using custom subdomains with tls
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 4 months
plextlsdockerusenetsubdomains
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