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Joshua Kifer

@joshuakifer

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Highly experienced Montana-based Full-stack Senior Software Engineer -- Rust, TypeScript, Python

United States

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What I'm looking for

I want to work with serious people on a real problem.

Leveraging over two decades of startup experience, I transform ideas into finished products, delivering rapid progression from initial concept to prototype to v1.

Experience

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Senior Software Engineer

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Plunk

Apr 2019 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Prototyped and bootstrapped web, mobile, services, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, ML integration, monitoring, logging. Contributed analysis to problem domain, designed and implemented databases. Helped define and implement various ETL flows. Wrote several in-house utilities and dashboards.

AWS EC2 RDS S3 Snowflake Postgres SQL Swift Rust Python TypeScript JSON Vue Svelte GraphQL REST WebSockets

Senior Software Engineer

Blucadia

Nov 2013 - Oct 2017 (3 years 11 months)

Collaborated on analysis and design of prototypes and iterated into v1 production launch. Designed and wrote initial software, database architecture and supporting services. This was a strong and necessary team effort for a complex domain. We effectively collaborated to collectively understand the problem space and implement, as simply as we could, a complex marketplace application.

GCP AWS MySQL Postgres SQL React Redux Elixir Python JavaScript

Senior Software Engineer

Blue Frontiers

Jan 2018 - Sep 2019 (1 year 8 months)

This venture was based on the thesis of Seasteading as put forward by Joe Quirk. It made some earnest but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to trial a seastead in Tahiti, funded by an ERC-20 token. I implemented front and back ends for the web site, including realtime blockchain visibility in support of an initial coin offering. Worked on various dashboards and internal tools.