Josh Ribakoff
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJosh Ribakoff is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient, high-performance systems across finance, autonomous vehicles, and media. Based in San Francisco, he has driven measurable impact at companies like Brex, Cruise, and Twitch—reducing servicing interventions by 80%, slashing video latency from seconds to milliseconds, and cutting frontend build times by over 80%. He spans the full stack with deep expertise in Typescript, React, Elixir, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and scalable data pipelines, and is comfortable architecting both infrastructure for money movements and real-time telemetry for driverless ops. Josh combines hands-on optimization (100x frame-rate improvements, significant CPU reductions) with platform-level leadership: testing patterns, SLOs, observability, and developer tooling that reduce friction for hundreds of engineers. He also has entrepreneurial chops from founding and scaling product businesses, bringing a pragmatic, product-focused lens to technical decisions.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,028reputation
518kreached
36answers
18questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
e2e10
command-line-tool10
firefox10
api10
angularjs10
nodejs10
css10
user-interface10
workspaces10
frontend10
declarative10
yarn-workspaces10
stream10
nrwl-nx10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rx-store/rx-store
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
The stream management library
Contributions:2 reviews, 469 commits, 57 PRs in 2 months
library-managementnodejsstreamingstream
metator/application
May 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:323 commits in 5 months
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