Joshua Pickering

I’m a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable web applications, distributed backend systems, and cloud-native platforms across e-commerce, healthcare, SaaS, and creator ecosystems. I focus heavily on backend engineering with Node.js and Python, and I’ve recently integrated AI-powered capabilities—LLMs, RAG pipelines, and intelligent automation—directly into production systems.

In my recent roles, I architect scalable backend services using Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, and microservice architectures, and I design distributed APIs with REST/GraphQL, Kafka, and asynchronous event-driven patterns to improve scalability and fault tolerance. I also build modern frontend applications with React, Next.js, TypeScript, and reusable component architectures, and I optimize PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB for transactional, caching, and AI-assisted workloads.

I enjoy leading architecture decisions, mentoring engineers through code reviews and system design discussions, and raising engineering quality through observability and monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging. I deliver reliable, secure software solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments—using containerization, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code—to support measurable business outcomes.