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GitHub: github.com/joshcarp
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Phone: +1 4168293973
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- passion for science and community engagement
Work Experience
Founder - Grad Alley
- Founder of Grad Alley - Research organisation focusing on intersection of cognitive science and machine learning
- Grad Alley Paper Reading Club - reading technical paper related to machine learning / AI.
Software Engineer - Buf (2022 - 2023)
- Lead Engineer authoring and maintaining OpenTelemetry auto instrumentation for the Connect RPC protocol (blog post) which enabled easier migration to Connect RPC.
- Lead Engineer on implementing SRE and observability principles using auto-generated Grafana dashboards with Sentry, alongside high cardinality tracing to reduce internal errors by 90%, leading to a significant increase in system reliability to achieve 99.99% request availability.
- Lead Engineer maintaining Buf CLI automating public releases, creation of reference documentation, implementing new commands and regular bug fixes.
- Contributing Engineer optimising and maintaining the connect-go library encouraging further adoption of the Connect RPC protocol.
- Contributing Engineer implementing version resolution process for npm, Go, Maven, Gradle, and Swift.
Software Engineer - ANZ Bank (2019 - 2022)
- Lead Engineer building Protobuf tooling aiding development teams in adhering to regulatory requirements for data classification which significantly reduced the manual workload required for releasing.
- Lead Engineer on multi-stage performance and load testing pipelines with k6, ghz, and locust that included realistic data generation for billions of transactions with regression detection and report generation, further reducing manual toil involved in releasing.