Joshua Shanks
Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Shanks is a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle with 12 years of experience building reliable, secure infrastructure across startups and large firms from Amazon to Palo Alto Networks. He began as a full-stack/backend engineer and now focuses on infrastructure, service-to-service auth, service mesh, and reliability patterns—work that includes launching AWS Marketplace features at Amazon and shaping SSO and identity at Indeed. At companies like Stripe, Chronosphere, SentiLink and Protect AI (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) he’s driven infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, and developer tooling to improve operability at scale. Equally at home writing code or designing platform strategy, he’s passionate about testing, security, and improving interview processes to raise hiring standards. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who turns complex distributed-systems requirements into auditable, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Sciences, BS Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (166)
graalvm10
windows10
bash10
code-completion10
scheduling10
consul10
http-client10
infrastructure10
rego10
serverless10
microservices10
cloud-native10
service-mesh10
aggregator10
data-center10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jjshanks/add-pod-label
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 reviews, 140 PRs, 173 pushes in 3 months
jjshanks/cryptopals
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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