Joshua Shanks
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Shanks is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, secure infrastructure across startups and large tech companies, currently at Palo Alto Networks after Protect AI's acquisition. He blends deep backend and full-stack roots with a current focus on infrastructure, reliability patterns, and security-driven system design. Joshua has led SRE and service-architecture efforts at companies like Stripe, Indeed, and SentiLink, shipping service-to-service auth, service meshes, and developer tooling at scale. He is passionate about testing, improving interview processes, and making systems auditable and maintainable. Based in Seattle with a BS in Computer Science from UT Austin, he brings a pragmatic balance of hands-on coding and long-term organizational planning. Colleagues value that he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade reliability—often surfacing simple process changes that prevent costly outages.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Sciences, BS Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (157)
graalvm10
windows10
bash10
code-completion10
scheduling10
consul10
http-client10
infrastructure10
rego10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
service-mesh10
aggregator10
data-center10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jjshanks/add-pod-label
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 140 PRs, 173 pushes in 3 months
jjshanks/cryptopals
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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