Joshua J
Research Engineer at BlockScience
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua J is a Research Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and implementing scalable, data-driven distributed systems and cloud-native pipelines for cross-disciplinary teams. He co-created and maintains cadCAD, an influential open-source Python framework for digital-twin and stochastic simulation used by the token engineering community and taught by TokenEngineering Academy. At BlockScience he builds content-addressable data processing frameworks (CATs) that use IPFS CIDs to certify provenance and enable deterministic re-execution across multi-cloud Kubernetes runtimes. His background spans end-to-end ML production—forecasting AdTech viewership, blockchain ingestion at scale, and award-winning research on predicting student performance in MOOCs—blending research rigor with practical, deployable engineering. An autodidact who values democratizing personalized education, he pairs systems thinking with a penchant for verifiable, provenance-first data products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Science & Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Science & Technology at Temple University
Github Skills (51)
simulate10
modeling-tool10
freecad10
agent-based-modeling10
eda10
ethereum10
blockchain10
validate10
modeling10
toolbox9
simulation9
recall9
golang9
go9
information-theory9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BlockScience/cats
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:22 reviews, 180 commits, 88 PRs in 6 months
cadCAD-org/cadCAD
Sep 2018 - Sep 2021
Design, simulate, validate, and operate within complex systems
Contributions:28 reviews, 1318 commits, 250 PRs in 3 years
complex-systemsagent-based-modelingedaoperatefreecad
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