Josh Roppo
Senior Software Engineer at Xplore
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Roppo is a senior software engineer in Portland, Oregon with 13 years building secure, cloud-native backend and infrastructure systems across startups and mission-critical products. He blends hands-on distributed systems and SRE work—Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC—and security-minded engineering to solve performance, networking, and compliance challenges. Josh has shipped infrastructure improvements for projects like the Akash decentralized cloud node and contributed OpsGenie alerting to ElastAlert, showing both open-source impact and practical integrations. His background spans satellite mission control, real-time security telemetry, and multi-tenant Kubernetes workloads, reflecting versatility across application, operations, and platform engineering. He combines an academic observational approach and hacker curiosity with a preference for deterministic, well-tested outcomes. New to red team work, he’s actively broadening offensive security skills to round out his defensive expertise.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Washington State University
English, Spanish, Japanese
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Github Skills (24)
apim10
kubernetes10
container10
python10
alertdialog10
alertview10
alerts10
cicd10
go10
api10
http-request10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
dockers9
makefile9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
akash-network/node
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Source code for Akash node, a secure, transparent, and peer-to-peer cloud computing network
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:63 reviews, 7 commits, 86 PRs in 19 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of the Akash node project, focusing on Kubernetes integration and CI/CD pipeline improvements. They upgraded Kubernetes dependencies and refactored code to accept context parameters. Additionally, they worked on refactoring code to use `akashctl`, implemented features related to a lite Akash node and CLI example, and corrected Makefile dependencies. Their work also included restructuring the client interface and associated function calls to accommodate for contexts.
cloud-computingpeer-to-peergolangblockchaincontainers
YelpArchive/elastalert
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Easy & Flexible Alerting With ElasticSearch
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the integration of OpsGenie alerts within the ElastAlert system. They implemented the `OpsGenieAlerter`, added tests for it, and refactored the code to comply with the project's linter. This work involved making HTTP requests and processing responses, adding this third-party library to the core modules. The user also updated documentation to include the new OpsGenie integration.
elasticsearch
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