Joshua Schlichting
Director, Data Engineering
Dover, Delaware, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Schlichting is a Director of Data Engineering with eight years of industry experience and a deeper technical foundation honed through earlier Air Force systems and instructor roles. He leads and mentors teams building serverless ETL pipelines on AWS, mastering a stack that includes Python, Go, SQL/Snowflake, dbt, Docker, and GitHub Actions to deliver scalable, production-ready data infrastructure. Known for meticulous debugging across layered systems and a track record of process automation, he has driven cost and risk reduction initiatives at Sallie Mae and Best Egg. A decorated Air Force veteran and former Technical Training Instructor, he combines disciplined operational rigor with practical software craftsmanship—evidenced by awards like Sallie Mae’s Award of Excellence and Instructor of the Year. Based in Dover, DE, he pairs a master's in software engineering with hands-on experience migrating legacy systems to modern cloud-native architectures.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor’s Degree I.T. with a concentration in Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree I.T. with a concentration in Software Engineering at University of PhoenixAssociate's Degree Instructor of Technology and Military Science, Associate's Degree Instructor of Technology and Military Science at Community College of the Air Force
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
3,320reputation
387kreached
91answers
46questions
Github Skills (96)
game-engine9
data-driven9
rust9
windows9
game-development9
ios9
desktop9
docker9
server-side-rendering9
language-server9
android9
flutter9
templating9
dart8
docker-compose8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JoshuaSchlichting/sweng894-capstone
May 2021 - Aug 2021
My Penn State University Master of Software Engineering capstone project for SWENG894
Contributions:36 PRs, 150 pushes, 37 branches in 2 months
capstonejavascriptmasterpennengineering
JoshuaSchlichting/create-aws-profile
Apr 2022 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 releases, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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