Joshua Herkness
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Herkness is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon with 11 years of experience building backend services using Java and AWS, currently focused on Exports & Expansion. He progressed through multiple SDE levels at Amazon after internships working on Kindle rendering and front-end projects, demonstrating full-stack fluency and product-driven delivery. Based in Detroit, he blends systems-level thinking with practical implementation, often bridging backend services and cloud infrastructure to support global features. Early work in cybersecurity research collaboration and teaching advanced CS topics reflects a knack for mentorship and applied security awareness that informs his engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science Computer Science at Oakland UniversityClarkson High School
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Github Skills (11)
uitableview6
swift6
validations6
organizer5
forms5
ios5
javascript4
form-builder4
react4
cocoapods4
carthage3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joshherkness/AR-Top
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:108 PRs, 128 pushes, 117 branches in 3 months
joshherkness/CSE-231
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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