Joshua Brown
Senior Software Engineer at GitHub
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Brown is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-impact features for large developer platforms, currently contributing to GitHub’s repositories and code search. He has driven major performance and usability improvements at scale—previously owning and modernizing WIQL for Azure DevOps as a solo code owner and rebuilding UI surfaces for Azure Boards. His background spans full-stack work from WebAssembly and C++ integration testing at SAS to Spring Boot and Angular systems at MetLife, where he cut search latencies dramatically and introduced new company-wide patterns. A strong communicator and teacher, he has led small teams, crafted developer tooling and testing frameworks, and evangelized inner-source practices across organizations. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs applied-math rigor from UNC Chapel Hill with a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, developer-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. with Highest Distinction, Applied Mathematics; Physics, GPA 3.83, B.S. with Highest Distinction, Applied Mathematics; Physics, GPA 3.83 at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (44)
matrix10
linear-regression10
vector10
matrix-factorization10
component-library10
least-squares10
qr-decomposition10
vector-math10
lu-decomposition10
svd10
react10
algebra9
typescript9
matrix-multiplication9
linear-algebra9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jbrown1618/recipes
Jul 2016 - Sep 2022
Recipes collected by me and my wife
Contributions:13 commits, 8 PRs, 26 pushes in 6 years 3 months
pythonrecipesmachine-learning
jbrown1618/spotify-stats
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
A program to fetch and summarize a user's Spotify data
Contributions:72 commits, 20 PRs, 276 pushes in 11 months
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