Joshua Rubin is a founder and seasoned software architect with 14+ years building high-volume, low-latency distributed systems across startups and cloud-native environments. He has led and shipped production-grade APIs and orchestration for low-latency LLM services, designed secure multi-tenant authorization models, and migrated complex control planes to Kubernetes while remaining a hands-on engineer. Equally comfortable as a "player-coach," he combines practical engineering leadership with deep systems work in Go, Linux, and Kubernetes, and a keen interest in open-source AI and security stacks. His background spans embedded contributions to popular open-source projects like QMK firmware through to architecting GroqCloud’s token-streaming API and accelerator scheduling, reflecting a rare blend of embedded, cloud, and AI infrastructure expertise.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 49 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed significantly to the QMK firmware, focusing on adding and modifying keyboard layouts for various keyboard models. Their work included adding new layouts for the DZ60, GH60, and HHKB keyboards, as well as integrating VIA support for the Launchpad and BDN9 keyboards, and adding RGB support to the Launchpad. The user's contributions involved modifying configuration files, keymaps, and header files to enable features like RGB lighting and VIA compatibility.
Contributions:3 releases, 5 reviews, 9 commits in 2 years 5 months
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