Josh Rendek
Senior Director, Platform & SRE
Clearwater, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Rendek is a seasoned platform and SRE leader with 17 years of hands-on engineering experience building scalable, secure cloud-native systems and developer tooling. Currently Senior Director of Platform & SRE at Sophos (after leading Platform Engineering at Secureworks), he blends deep systems programming in Go and Ruby with operational expertise across Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and CI/CD. He founded SysWard, a performance-focused patch management SaaS, and has a track record of shipping low-latency security services such as a Go-based WAF and container scanning pipelines. Known for bridging product and ops, he favors pragmatic automation, observability, and per-tenant security designs that scale across multi-tenant Kubernetes environments. Based in Clearwater, FL, he brings both startup founder grit and enterprise leadership to complex reliability challenges.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Incomplete Computer Science, BS Incomplete Computer Science at Florida State University
Github Skills (97)
testing10
golang10
go10
mocking10
buffalo10
docker10
ecosystem9
vault9
structured-logging9
ssh9
logging9
assertion9
allocation9
rails9
ansible-module8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sysward/docs.sysward.com
Mar 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
joshrendek/scala-ifcfg-api
Nov 2013 - Apr 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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