Josh Slocum
Principal Software Engineer at Snowflake
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Slocum is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, high-performance distributed data storage systems. Currently at Snowflake, he has driven database engineering work on Unistore and Hybrid Tables after rising through senior roles there and at Indeed, where he led Osiris from prototype to the company’s largest petabyte-scale key-value store. Expert in Java and proficient in C++, C, JavaScript, and Python, he brings deep systems-level knowledge for storage and distributed systems performance. A contributor to FoundationDB and Apache Curator, he combines production-facing engineering with meaningful open-source collaboration. Based in Denver and a UT Austin Honors graduate in Computer Science, he pairs rigorous academic training with a pragmatic record of shipping at scale. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who surfaces elegant engineering trade-offs in complex, data-heavy environments.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (14)
transactional10
java10
database10
apache-curator9
acid9
zookeeper9
distributed-database9
consensus9
key-value-store9
foundationdb9
react3
javascript2
python2
lambda1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jmslocum16/foundationdb
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:2 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 11 months
foundationdbkey-value-store
jmslocum16/doggotracker
Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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