Josh Brown
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Brown is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web-facing applications, currently contributing at Google from San Francisco. He brings strong backend expertise in C#, .NET, and Python, with prior senior engineering roles at Coinbase and Microsoft and earlier experience across finance and energy sectors. Josh has a practical track record of shipping reliable systems and refining developer tooling, evidenced by his open-source contributions to the well-regarded beets music library—adding a configurable zeroing plugin and improving import functionality. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Oklahoma State University and consistently bridges legacy enterprise codebases with modern cloud-native practices. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he blends production-grade engineering with attention to documentation and API usability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oklahoma State University
Github Skills (6)
music10
python10
cli9
musicbrainz8
api-design8
documentation7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
beetbox/beets
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the `beets` music library manager by implementing and refining the `zero` plugin, which sets specified tag fields to null. They added a new `zero` subcommand and corresponding documentation. Additionally, the user improved the `lastimport` plugin functionality, allowing users to override the default Last.fm API key and updating documentation. The user also modified the changelog to reflect new features.
musicbrainzmusicpythonmusic-librarycli
SJoshBrown/beets
Feb 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 10 months
pythonmusicbrainztaggermusicmusic-library
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