Joe Brockhaus
Senior Software Engineer at Mojang Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Brockhaus is a senior software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and a 20-year background in software, currently building core tools and 24/7 services for Mojang Studios' Minecraft franchise from Redmond. He specializes in cloud-native C#/.NET backend systems, Azure platform engineering, Kubernetes/AKS, and scalable service integration for player safety, moderation, and support workflows. Joe has led small engineering teams to design, ship, and operate customer-facing platforms and automation tooling at Rackspace and Dell, driving migrations between cloud stacks and mentoring peers through trainings and internal knowledge programs. Comfortable across full-stack, serverless, and infrastructure-as-code domains, he pairs practical operational experience (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Helm) with hands-on API and automation work. An engineer who balances customer-facing onboarding and on-call responsibilities, he’s known for turning complex product and safety requirements into reliable, production-grade services.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science Engineering at University of CincinnatiDiploma Full International Baccalaureate, Diploma Full International Baccalaureate at Withrow University High School
German, Latin
Stackoverflow
2,765reputation
373kreached
48answers
48questions
azure-functions
top-5%
Github Skills (63)
azure-webjobs-sdk10
dotnet10
microsoft-azure10
azure-pipelines10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
authentication9
azure-functions9
windows9
azure-automation9
swagger-tools9
serverless9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JoeBrockhaus/AzureAutomationVsoGitSync
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018
A PowerShell Module for automating deployment of Runbooks (more later?) from a VSO GIT Repository to an Azure Automation account. Inspired by the Microsoft System Center Automation Team's v1 Sync-VsoGitRunbook
Contributions:21 commits, 24 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years
automationazure-automationpowershell-modulesystem-center
JoeBrockhaus/authservices
Jul 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 tag in 1 month
aspauthenticationsaml2asp-netoauth2
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