Joshua Oliphant
Senior System Engineer at ServiceNow
Olympia, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Oliphant is a Senior System Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating cloud-native, event-driven systems that make engineering teams more productive with AI. He has led containerization, CI/CD, and Kubernetes platform initiatives across enterprises including ServiceNow, T-Mobile, Amazon, Nordstrom, and Expedia, often improving scalability and deployability (e.g., halving Java image sizes via Java modules). Skilled across Java, Python, C#, and Go, he pairs hands-on microservices development with infrastructure-as-code and observability practices using tools like Helm, Kafka/Strimzi, AWS CDK, and GitLab/Azure DevOps pipelines. Joshua routinely takes ownership of complex data and ETL pipelines, integrating serverless and streaming technologies, and mentors teams on Kubernetes best practices. Based in Olympia, WA, he combines pragmatic engineering leadership with a focus on developer efficiency—regularly leveraging AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (AS), Computer Science, Associate of Science (AS), Computer Science at Seattle Central CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Seattle University
English
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Github Skills (32)
raycast9
textual8
static-memory-allocation6
spring-boot-actuator6
dynamic-memory-allocation6
spring-boot6
docker6
kubectl6
java6
kubernetes6
driver5
statistics5
python5
systemd-journal5
debugging5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
JoshuaOliphant/JoshuaOliphant
Jun 2021 - Mar 2026
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
JoshuaOliphant/avocet
Jan 2023 - May 2026
A bookmark manager that interacts with the raindrop.io API, built with the Python Textual TUI framework.
Contributions:14 PRs, 85 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 4 months
pythontextualtuiraindropraindrop-api
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