Joshua 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.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS, MS CS at San Francisco State University
CS/MATH/GE, CS/MATH/GE at Santa Rosa Junior College
BS - Computer Science, BS - Computer Science at Sonoma State University
A deck tracker and deck manager for Hearthstone on Windows
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Joshua Melcon - Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google