Joshua Melcon
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Petaluma, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Melcon is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and shipping large-scale distributed storage systems at Google, currently leading work on Cloud Firestore after progressing through Cloud Datastore and Play Games Services. He brings deep embedded-systems roots from Broadcom and Teknovus—where he developed FPGA, PHY, and EPON OLT firmware and test infrastructure—giving him rare cross-domain expertise from silicon-adjacent hardware to cloud-native databases. Known for pragmatic, effective solutions, he combines systems-level debugging skills with a disciplined engineering process (static analysis, code review, automated testing) that shortens verification cycles and improves reliability. Based in Petaluma, CA, he holds advanced CS training and a background in pure mathematics, which informs a methodical approach to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS, MS CS at San Francisco State UniversityCS/MATH/GE, CS/MATH/GE at Santa Rosa Junior CollegeBS - Computer Science, BS - Computer Science at Sonoma State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
windows10
overlay10
hearthstone10
wpf10
google-cloud9
command-line-tool8
firebase8
go8
gcp8
terraform8
google-cloud-platform8
golang8
nodejs6
google-cloud-firestore6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
joshuamelcon/Hearthstone-Deck-Tracker
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
decktrackerhearthstonedeck-trackercard-game
HearthSim/Hearthstone-Deck-Tracker
Aug 2015 - May 2020
A deck tracker and deck manager for Hearthstone on Windows
Contributions:1 PR, 1 issue in 4 years 9 months
windowsdeck-trackerhearthstonec-sharphearthstone-deck-tracker
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