Joshua Scott
Staff Engineer at Simpli.fi
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Scott is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience architecting and scaling high-throughput systems, currently based in Fort Worth, Texas. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Elixir, Go, C++, Ruby, and Node.js with strong database and infrastructure skills across Redis, Postgres, MySQL and cloud platforms, having led a mass migration of thousands of servers to Google Cloud using Terraform/Terragrunt. Known for obsessing over performance, he has architected services that handle millions of requests per second with millisecond latency and replaced legacy systems to increase update throughput from thousands to billions per day. Beyond coding, he blends product and financial sense to align technical solutions with business outcomes and has driven SRE and automation practices (Consul, Chef, Terraform) that cut provisioning and deployment times from days to minutes. An operator at heart, he thrives on scaling challenges and end-to-end system design that delivers measurable impact on the bottom line.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (93)
vector-search10
realtime10
in-memory-database10
terraform10
message-queue10
automation10
terraform-module10
nosql10
golang10
atlantis10
database10
json10
key-value-store10
erlang10
in-memory10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
simplifi/terraform-google-cloud-build-slack-notifier
Jul 2021 - Jun 2025
Terraform Module to add Slack notifications to Cloud Build
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 1 PR in 3 years 11 months
slack-notificationsterraform-moduleterraformcloudbuildslack
joshuawscott/postgresql-node
May 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 8 months
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