Josue Balandrano
Senior Software Engineer V at GoDaddy
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosue Balandrano is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient back-end systems and scalable web applications, currently driving technical work at GoDaddy from Austin. He combines research-grade engineering from his time at the Texas Advanced Computing Center with hands-on production experience in DevOps and distributed systems. An active open-source contributor, Josue has improved reliability and autoscaling in the widely used Celery task queue and enhanced Open edX’s backend and admin features. He is adept at leading projects end-to-end—designing features, coordinating releases, and mentoring teams—while keeping a pragmatic focus on testing, observability, and deployment pipelines. With an MS in Computer Science and a background that ranges from campus IT to enterprise platforms, he brings both systems-level depth and practical operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Science, Computer Science, Masters in Science, Computer Science at The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey / ITESM
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (14)
celery10
backend10
data-service10
pytest10
back-end-development10
python10
message-queue10
webservice10
django10
testing10
amqp9
dockers9
docker9
postgresql8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
celery/celery
May 2018 - Aug 2021
Distributed Task Queue (development branch)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 8 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Josue primarily contributed to bug fixes and enhancements within the Celery codebase, specifically addressing issues related to serialization, graph building, and connection management. They implemented changes to improve the reliability of the message queue by restarting consumers upon connection drops. Additionally, the user added features to the worker's autoscaler, along with test improvements and updates to the documentation, suggesting work in the build and testing pipeline. The user also contributed to infrastructure improvements, including updating Couchbase install steps and modifying the Dockerfile.
queue-taskspythonworkerqueued-jobstask-runner
openedx/edx-platform
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 74 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josue primarily contributed to the Open edX platform's back-end functionality. Their commits focused on enhancing the Django admin interface, including adding features to manage student accounts and enrollments. They also made adjustments to configurations, specifically allowing for overriding enrollment role choices, and addressed code improvements related to testing and error handling. Furthermore, the user refined the y-axis formatting in the progress graph, fixing a window resize issue and addressing an edge case with username character encoding.
edxlmssitesbackend-serviceopen-edx
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