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Joseph Godlewski

@josephgodlewski

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I've built scalable data platforms and customer-facing services at XetData, Apple, and Yahoo.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build reliable, customer-focused platforms with collaborative product and engineering teams, lead technical design, mentor engineers, and explore AI-native experiences that improve user workflows and operational efficiency.

I've built and shipped production software at XetData, Apple, and Yahoo, from scalable data collaboration services to high-traffic consumer platforms. At XetData, I design Java and Kotlin microservices and led an ingestion pipeline that reduced failures by 30%.

I work across backend and full-stack systems, pairing AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and observability with customer-focused design. I also mentor engineers, strengthen testing practices, and turn product feedback into reliable production workflows.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Engineer

Current

XetData

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 7 months)

Designed and implemented scalable backend services for XetData's data collaboration and versioning platform, building Java and Kotlin microservices with Spring Boot, gRPC, and REST on AWS and Kubernetes. Led end-to-end design and rollout of a new ingestion pipeline, reducing ingestion failures by 30%.

Java Kotlin Spring Boot gRPC REST AWS EC2 S3 DynamoDB Kubernetes React TypeScript NodeJS PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Lambda Amazon EKS Prometheus Grafana Datadog Junit TestNG Mockito Pact JMeter Gatling Jenkins GitHub Actions

Senior Software Engineer

Apple

Jun 2017 - Feb 2022 (4 years 8 months)

Led backend development for large-scale customer-facing services in Apple's internet services ecosystem, designing Java and Scala microservices with Spring, Dropwizard, and gRPC on Kubernetes. Drove adoption of robust testing methodologies and owned critical service reliability, reducing P1 incidents by 20%.

Java Scala Spring Framework Dropwizard gRPC Kubernetes REST Kafka Redis PostgreSQL Junit TestNG Mockito Selenium Gatling Jenkins Grafana ELK PagerDuty

Software Engineer

Yahoo! Inc.

May 2014 - Jun 2017 (3 years 1 month)

Developed backend services for Yahoo's consumer-facing web properties, implementing Java-based REST APIs with Spring and Jersey. Built and maintained data access layers and caching for personalization and content ranking features.