Josh Williams
Principal Software Engineer at Perpetual Systems
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Williams is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with seven years of hands-on experience building cloud-native security and observability platforms. He led architecture and delivery for Cloud SIEM products at Sumo Logic after JASK’s acquisition, combining backend systems (Python/Scala/Postgres/Kafka/Elasticsearch) with React/TypeScript front-ends. Josh has startup founder experience as a CTO who built a cloud threat-detection MVP and learned product-market fit lessons firsthand, and now applies that operator mindset to product-focused engineering leadership. His background includes machine-scale tooling at Apple (Siri) and platform work at Google, giving him uncommon exposure to both large-scale NLP/tooling and fast-moving security products. Known for bridging deep technical architecture with pragmatic team leadership, he focuses on shipping reliable, scalable systems that solve operational security needs.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (30)
sumologic10
sumo10
logic10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
react9
d3js9
documentation8
visualization8
open-source7
data-visualization6
avro6
api5
react-component5
rails4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
josh-williams/sumologic-documentation
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Open Source repo for Sumo Logic documentation.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
sumo-logicsumologic
SumoLogic/terraform-provider-sumologic
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Terraform provider for Sumo Logic
Contributions:39 reviews, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
sumologicprovidersumo-logicsumoterraform
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