Josh Long

Web and Systems Engineer

Fort Lee, New Jersey

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SUMMARY

Experienced Engineer with a strong track record of independently addressing complex business requirements and overcoming challenges to deliver polished, robust solutions. Strong concentrations in developer tooling, and IAM / Authentication protocols.

Open Source

Contributions to Open Source Projects:

EDUCATION

Ramapo College of New Jersey

2014 – 2018 | Bachelors of Science

  • Major: Computer Science
  • Extra Circulars: Computers and Technology Club Eboard

Languages

  • HTML/JavaScript/CSS
  • TypeScript
  • Rust
  • C/C++
  • GoLang
  • C#
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Bash

Technologies

  • Docker
  • Linux/UNIX Operating Systems
  • NodeJS/Deno/CF Workers
  • Mono/.NET Core
  • RTOS
  • WebAssembly
  • Postgres

Cloud Platforms

  • AWS
  • Azure

Senior Software Engineer

October 2024 – Present | Beyond Identity

  • › Improved system maintainability and performance through evidence based optimization and proactive project prioritization.
  • › Improved SQL implementations through targeted optimizartions to bring p99 alerting down over 90%.
  • › Improved SCIM implementation through additional schema support.
  • › Created tooling for easier querying of OAuth permission scopes based on category sets.
  • › Worked collaboratively to develop Device inventory system utilizing event sourcing architecture through AWS technologies.
  • › Integrated tooling developed as a side project into organization's LLM agent tooling for better understanding of agents session memory.

Protocol Engineer

Mar 2023 – October 2024 | Lit Protocol

  • › Improved delivery processes of core software products through CI/CD workflows.
  • › Took ownership of product releases for an open source JavaScript based SDK product used by a large number of up stream projects.
  • › Provided feedback on various proposals guiding roadmaps and implementations for core product features.
  • › Developed custom tooling for testing distributed network operations across system boundaries. Allowed for full system testing within CI workflows, bringing test coverage up 40%.
  • › Refactored / optimized core cryptographic implementations in Rust compiled to WebAssembly. Utilizing compiler optimizations, and targeted module replacements for size reduction.
  • › Helped design and implement abstractions for OAuth and Webauthn based authentication.

Lead Engineer

Dec 2022 - Mar 2023 | Highkey

  • › Built core implementations for an Ethereum Wallet application.
  • › Designed and built core business logic focusing around MFA / Webauthn authentication.
  • › Provided input on business goals in context to product lifecycle.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Mar 2022 | Crestron Electronics

  • › Development of embedded applications for home automation running on single core processors.
  • › Driver integration for COM applications providing support for device communication over USB.
  • › Design and implementation of green field developer tooling helping abstract numeric labeling for string based aliases.
    • › Aided in initial design and implementation of design tooling for graphical applications targeting Android based touch screen devices.
  • › Developed custom framework for module based JavaScript development for Blazor runtime.
  • › Design Excellence award winner for Software Tools department (2020)