Joshua Swick
Software Engineer at greymatter.io
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolJoshua Swick is a software engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native, automated delivery systems and scaling infrastructure for both academia and enterprise. Based in Fort Collins, he has driven measurable cost and reliability improvements—cutting operational costs by 82% through platform simplification and slashing recovery time from days to minutes with automated backup and recovery. He specializes in Go and Python and has delivered automated acceptance testing, ephemeral Kubernetes environments, and secure integrations with Kubernetes/OpenShift, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and Vault. Joshua blends SRE-driven monitoring and performance benchmarking with practical DevOps tooling (Terraform, Buildkite, Docker/Podman) to shorten release cycles and harden products. He’s known for mentoring teams, replacing brittle homegrown utilities with strategic third-party services, and translating academic-scale needs into production-grade systems. An engineer who started in network operations and bio/engineering studies, he brings a pragmatic, multidisciplinary perspective to solving infrastructure and delivery challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityComputer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of Northern ColoradoMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (46)
timeseries-database10
monitoring10
time-series10
prometheus10
graphing10
container-management9
code-generator9
docker9
code-generation9
sqlite8
kotlin8
cloud-native8
continuous-integration8
container-registry8
typesafe8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
joshuaswickirl/exercism-javascript-track
Aug 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
joshuaswickirl/dotfiles
May 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.