Joshua Shinavier
Owner at Apache TinkerPop
Seacliff, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Shinavier is a veteran software engineer and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building distributed systems, graph databases, and data-processing infrastructure. As a co-founder and long-time contributor to Apache TinkerPop, he helped create the Gremlin graph query language and made substantive backend contributions to Blueprints and Titan, including implementing TTL semantics and Sail-based RDF support. His career spans senior technical roles at LinkedIn, Uber, and Microsoft as well as founding advisory and owner positions in early-stage ventures, reflecting a blend of deep R&D and product-focused engineering. Known for improving test automation, performance, and storage integrations, he brings rare expertise at the intersection of graph theory, RDF/semantic web tooling, and production-grade backend systems. Based in Seacliff, California, he pairs academic pedigree (RPI PhD work) with practical, open-source impact that continues to influence graph computing stacks.
18 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Computer Science BA in Physics, BS in Computer Science BA in Physics at Eastern Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstitutePhysics, Physics at ETH Zürich
English, German
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Github Skills (22)
back-end-development10
cassandra10
testing10
graph-database10
java10
data-storage10
javas10
junit10
rdf10
gremlin9
database-design9
slf4j8
performance-testing8
sparql7
ttl6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tinkerpop/blueprints
Jan 2011 - Jul 2014
A Property Graph Model Interface (no longer active - see Apache TinkerPop)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:167 commits, 3 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the development of the `blueprints` project, specifically implementing and modifying core classes such as `GraphSailConnection` and `GraphBasedMatcher`. They added a Sail-based implementation with various optimizations. The user also focused on adding features such as unique statement constraints, support for RDF/JSON, and enabling inference.
tinkerpopapacheapache-tinkerpopgraphproperty-graph
apache/tinkerpop
Nov 2016 - Nov 2021
Apache TinkerPop - a graph computing framework
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 21 commits, 14 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to integration testing and performance enhancements within the Apache TinkerPop framework. Their work involved setting up integration tests with Failsafe, consolidating test suites, and optimizing test execution. Furthermore, the user introduced the use of pure SLF4J logging. The changes indicate a focus on improving the quality and reliability of the Gremlin Server.
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