Joshua Benz
Summary
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SeniorJoshua Benz is a Staff Software Engineer based in Los Angeles with 8 years of experience delivering scalable, distributed systems. He currently contributes at Equinix, focusing on Linux, Rust, and distributed architectures. An early role as a security officer at Six Flags developed his risk management and cross-team coordination skills, while his time as a Cisco Graduate Technical Intern and a Udemy instructor sharpened both hands-on engineering and technical communication. He earned a BS in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and has been pursuing an MS in CS at San Jose State University since 2019. Joshua blends production-grade software craftsmanship with teaching and mentoring, enabling teams to translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (26)
mongoose10
expressjs9
vte8
linux8
windows8
opengl8
nodejs7
terminal-emulator7
gpu7
bsd7
mongodb7
macos7
rust7
weather-data5
noaa5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PPA-Enterprises/crispy-fiesta
Jul 2020 - Apr 2021
Client managing application created while doing a freelance project for a local business
Contributions:19 PRs, 122 pushes, 39 branches in 8 months
local-businesswhile
erudition-labs/Project-Append
May 2018 - Sep 2020
A huge MEAN application fulfilling the needs of any large organization such as JROTC, BoyScouts, Venture Crew, Sports Teams, etc.
Contributions:775 commits, 7 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 4 months
crewboyscoutsexpressjsexpressnodejs
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