Josiah Haswell is an award-winning inventor, infrastructure engineer, and distributed systems researcher with over a decade of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems. He has led large-scale migrations and platform engineering efforts—reconciling million-line codebases, introducing tiered architectures, and deploying production systems across Kubernetes and Hyperforce with measurable zero-downtime outcomes. As founder of Sunshower.io he designed a low-code, multi-cloud optimization engine and sold the platform to a defense contractor after scaling to dozens of enterprise customers. His work spans systems research to hands-on delivery: Raft and DHT implementations, real-time Raft in Rust for Web3, performance improvements to GMP, and production-grade CI/CD and IaaC at multiple companies. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for elegant abstractions and reproducible testing infrastructure. Outside the keyboard he’s an avid mountain-biker, cook, and dog-lover—small rituals that keep his focus sharp on complex distributed problems.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Mathematics, B.S. Mathematics at Colorado State University
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