Joshua Briefman
Staff Site Reliability Engineer at ByteDance
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Briefman is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11+ years building resilient, high-performance systems across tech giants including ByteDance, Rubrik, LinkedIn and AWS. He combines deep systems and cloud expertise—proven by incident leadership, performance engineering wins and S3-related contributions at AWS—with a tinkerer’s background that dates back to coding on a Commodore 64 and open-source Android/kernel work. At LinkedIn he drove measurable service improvements (35% gains from async redesigns) and surfaced security and scaling risks that changed migration plans; at AWS he influenced public SDKs and S3 APIs. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings hands-on ownership of complex services, mentors engineers, and uniquely blends low-level embedded kernel hacking, game modding (RimWorld), and Node.js development into pragmatic reliability engineering. Passionate about using technology to bring people together, he seeks to apply infrastructure know-how to make everyday interactions more natural and engaging.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Okefenokee Technical CollegeBrocadeInformation Technology, Information Technology at Microsoft Virtual AcademyInformation Technology, Information Technology at RackspaceC++ InstituteSplunk UniversityScrum.ASInformation Technology, Information Technology at Amazon Web ServicesComputer and Information Sciences General, Computer and Information Sciences General at Saylor AcademyRedHatBachelor of Science Information Technology, Bachelor of Science Information Technology at Western Governors University
English
Github Skills (189)
minecraft10
javascript10
twitter10
async10
unicorns10
cli10
npm-cli10
typescript10
prototypes10
nodejs10
package-manager10
rfc10
closures10
nim-lang10
npm10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
legodude17/create
May 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:11 PRs, 49 pushes, 18 branches in 5 years 7 months
legodude17/npm-troubleshoot
Aug 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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