Joshua Cotton
Senior Software Engineer at Recast
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Cotton is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud and backend systems, currently based in Florida. He has progressed through impactful roles at Microsoft—where he automated Azure hardware change request validations to cut turnaround times dramatically—and now leads engineering efforts at Recast. His background spans cloud security and compliance work at CloudCheckr, performance-focused tooling at Bank of America, and front-end/back-end migrations using React/Redux at Iowa State University. An active open-source contributor, he improved DeviantArt support in the popular FanFicFare eBook tool by implementing login, mature-content handling, tag fetching, and robust parsing fixes. A rising RIT senior in Software Engineering and an Eagle Scout, Joshua blends disciplined problem-solving with a track record of turning manual processes into scalable automation. He brings a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, and measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (10)
adaptor10
f10
download-manager10
python10
fann10
webscraping10
adapter10
ebooklib9
html-parsing9
docbook9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JimmXinu/FanFicFare
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
FanFicFare is a tool for making eBooks from stories on fanfiction and other web sites.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 13 commits, 4 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on adding and improving support for the DeviantArt website within the FanFicFare tool. Their contributions included implementing initial support for downloading content, adding login functionality, handling mature content restrictions, fetching tags, and fixing date parsing. They also made changes to the project's adapter infrastructure and refactored code to address specific issues.
ebookdownloaderpythonebookssites
jcotton42/rust
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
rustsatproc-macrocargorustlang
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