Joshua Buss
Founding Platform Engineer
United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Buss is a veteran engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and low-latency data platforms, currently heading engineering at a seed-stage B2B SaaS. He has deep expertise in cost-aware, multi-cloud architecture, observability, and production reliability—building and optimizing pipelines at companies from Confluent and Citadel to Pinecone and TRM Labs. Joshua blends managerial experience with senior IC work, routinely moving between strategy, IaC, Kubernetes operations, and JVM/database tuning to drive measurable efficiency gains. He’s known for breaking hard problems into practical abstractions and for deliberately introducing failure to validate HA designs across providers. A habitual tinkerer who started in hardware and system assembly, he still enjoys hands-on ops and shopping for new computers—bringing rare hardware-to-cloud fluency to modern infra challenges. Based in Chicago, he’s an effective mentor and public speaker who elevates teams in cost engineering, security, and observability.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Chicago
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Github Skills (176)
command-line-interface10
terraform10
python-client10
webextension10
pathofexile10
ai10
graph10
kafka-python10
aws-cli10
confluent10
amazon-web-services10
aws10
poe10
r9
tree-sitter9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chicagobuss/tracker
Jul 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:8 pushes in 5 days
chicagobuss/microk8s-ingress-example
Mar 2024 - Mar 2024
updating example for newer k8s apis
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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