Joshua Blackburn
VP, Engineering at Ridgeline
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Blackburn is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with two decades of experience building mission-critical systems for finance and defense, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Ridgeline. He architected and launched IEX Cloud as CTO—delivering an MVP in three months, sustaining 99.95%+ uptime for 1.5B daily API requests, and driving $1M ARR with a product-led growth strategy. Equally comfortable with low-latency trading infrastructure and large-scale geospatial systems, he has repeatedly taken products from zero to thousands of users while navigating strict regulatory and operational constraints. A hands-on architect who led UX, on-prem and cloud platforms, and complex SDLCs, Joshua combines product sensibility with operational rigor honed in the military and SEC-regulated environments. Notably, he has built systems that processed millions of data operations per second and supported multi-agency defense networks, demonstrating rare breadth across engineering, product, and field deployment.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityExecutive Leadership, Executive Leadership at Cornell UniversityBS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at University of Arkansas Grantham
Github Skills (4)
api10
trading9
fintech9
finance9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
iexg/IEX-API
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
The IEX API provides any individual or academic, public or private institution looking to develop applications that require stock market data to access near real-time quote and trade data for all stocks trading on IEX.
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch, 698 comments in 4 years 5 months
tradingapifinancefintechiex
Personalhomeman/IEX-API
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
The IEX API provides any individual or academic, public or private institution looking to develop applications that require stock market data to access near real-time quote and trade data for all stocks trading on IEX.
Contributions:8 commits in 9 months
trading
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