Joshua F
Site Reliability Engineer at RStudio, Inc.
Portland, Maine, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua F is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer based in Portland, Maine with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating Linux/Unix infrastructure, virtualization, and web operations. He has progressed through multiple SRE roles at Posit PBC, rising from Site Reliability Engineer to Principal, and previously led cloud and DevOps initiatives across startups and enterprise teams. Known for pragmatic automation—early work includes Puppet-driven configuration at Harvard Medical School and KVM/VMware virtualization projects—he focuses on making systems reliable and maintainable while enabling developer velocity. Joshua blends deep systems troubleshooting with architectural work (cloud migrations, production ownership and 24/7 support) and has a background in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A practical problem-solver, he often surfaces long-term infrastructure improvements from day-to-day operations, turning firefighting into repeatable automation.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Italian
Github Skills (79)
java10
pulumi9
javascript9
dotnet9
golang9
azure9
cloud-computing9
python9
gcp9
serverless9
elasticsearch9
rstudio9
aws9
restful9
r-package9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jforest/arduino
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jforest/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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