Joshua Dotson
Lead Software Engineer at Walmart
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Dotson is a lead software engineer and founder with over two decades of systems and platform experience, currently serving as Principal Product Architect for Walmart's global in-store retail media team. He blends deep HPC and bare-metal expertise from DoD supercomputing work with modern cloud-native architecture—designing Kubernetes platforms, streaming Kafka pipelines, and multi-language stacks (TypeScript, Rust, Kotlin, Python, Go). As founder of Wrale Ltd. and author of "AI Conversations That Work" (2024), he focuses on practical local AI infrastructure, publishing open-source MCP servers and tools that prioritize running models on commodity hardware rather than only on hyperscalers. A certified AWS Solutions Architect and Kubernetes admin/developer, he has a track record of turning experimental AI ideas (Bayesian networks, genetic algorithms) into production architectures and agent harnesses for local LLM inference. Based near Wright-Patterson AFB, he operates at both hands-on technical depth and large-org coordination, and is open to principal IC, technical leadership, and consulting engagements.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (7)
dsl8
amazon-web-services8
visualizations6
kibana5
elastic5
observability5
elasticsearch5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
stonehedge/stonehedge
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 1 day
wrale/docker-dna
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:7 commits in 1 month
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