Joshua Barnett
Lead Platform Engineer
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoshua Barnett is a Lead Platform Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building reliable, scalable systems across gaming, gambling, e-learning, speech recognition, and video-on-demand. Educated with First Class Honors in Computer Science from the University of East Anglia, he began coding with self-taught Flash game development and has progressed through roles from Flash and frontend development to full-stack and site reliability leadership. He has driven platform and SRE efforts at companies including EA, giffgaff, People Can Fly, and Speechmatics, delivering production-grade infrastructure and developer-friendly tooling. Known for bridging product and operations, Joshua brings a pragmatic focus on observability, automation, and fault-tolerant design that improves both uptime and developer velocity. He combines consultancy experience with in-house leadership, able to move quickly between hands-on implementation and team-level strategy. Based in the UK, he pairs deep technical craft with a background in interactive media that informs practical, user-centered platform decisions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science with Industrial Placement, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science with Industrial Placement at University of East Anglia
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Github Skills (200)
visual-studio10
influxdb10
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mp310
prometheus10
angularjs10
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continuous-integration10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
jshbrntt/racer
Sep 2019 - Dec 2024
A simplistic racing game written in C++.
Contributions:4 PRs, 165 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 3 months
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jshbrntt/speed-monitor-pi
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 4 PRs in 3 months
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