Josh Schaefer
Senior Account Executive at Tyk
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Schaefer is a senior account executive based in Atlanta with eight years of experience building and managing enterprise cloud and API-focused relationships, consistently overachieving quota across startups and global firms. He combines hands-on solutions engineering experience—contributing backend fixes and security/configurability improvements to the popular open-source Tyk API gateway—with a strong track record selling cloud, managed services, and professional services to customers from SMBs to Fortune 500s. Josh has a demonstrated ability to navigate complex, technical sales cycles end-to-end, negotiate contracts, and align delivery teams to drive measurable customer outcomes. Known for breaking into new logos and scaling revenue quickly, he’s repeatedly earned top-producer and quota/club recognitions.
8 years of coding experience
BA Economics, Economics, BA Economics, Economics at Hampden-Sydney CollegeBEN FRANKLIN ACADEMYThe Lovett SchoolTrinity School
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Github Skills (11)
api-management10
go10
reverse-proxy10
api-gateway10
security9
configuration-management9
grpc8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
docker6
dockers6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TykTechnologies/tyk
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 130 commits, 75 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the core functionalities of the Tyk API Gateway. Their work included fixing critical issues related to the dashboard's registration process to prevent panics and adding new features like configurable log levels and specifying supported ciphers for HTTPS servers. Furthermore, the user refactored parts of the cli package and modified various core files related to API definitions and versioning. This suggests a focus on improving the gateway's stability, configurability, and security.
api-gatewaygrpcreverse-proxyapi-managementcloudnative
joshblakeley/tyk-mixer-adapter
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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