Joshua Young
Senior Software Engineer at Buildkite
Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Young is a Senior Software Engineer based in Queensland, Australia, with six years of experience building reliable backend systems and operational tooling. He currently works at Buildkite and has a strong open-source footprint as a maintainer and contributor to core Ruby ecosystem projects like Puma, Rails, ruby-concurrency, and Rubygems. His contributions to Puma improved server parallelism and stability (idle timeouts, cluster behavior, phased restart fixes) and he’s fixed subtle ActiveRecord bugs and improved calculations and autosave behavior in Rails. Comfortable across backend and DevOps concerns, he blends production-first engineering with thoughtful refactors and test-driven fixes. Colleagues know him for quietly improving developer experience and resiliency in widely used projects that power many Ruby web apps.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)St. Peter's College
Github Skills (15)
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
debug10
rack10
rails10
server10
multithreading10
testing10
web-framework9
application-framework9
app-framework9
mvc8
configuration-management8
devops8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
puma/puma
Feb 2023 - Mar 2025
A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:79 reviews, 40 PRs, 141 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to improving Puma's server functionality and stability. Their work includes implementing idle timeout features, enhancing cluster mode behavior, and addressing issues related to phased restarts. Furthermore, the user refactored code, improved documentation, and addressed several warnings. They also modified the build and test configurations.
multithreadingweb-serverrackrubyparallelism
rails/rails
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:199 reviews, 4 commits, 78 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on improving the ActiveRecord component of Ruby on Rails. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to autosave associations and improving the `ids` method in ActiveRecord::Calculations to include associated data, enhancing its functionality and test coverage. They also addressed issues related to timestamps and nested attributes, and resolving issues in the ActionPack render template.
ruby-on-railsrailsframeworkrubymvc
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