Josh Comer
Director Of Engineering at Cvent
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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Top SchoolJosh Comer is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building resilient, distributed systems and scaling engineering organizations from small core teams to globally distributed groups. Based in Fredericton, he combines deep theory (B.Comp.Sc. in Theory and Computation) and a passion for programming languages with hands-on expertise in SRE, Clojure, AWS, Kafka, and large-scale architecture. He has led teams at Cvent and Serenova, designed DSLs and execution engines, and driven long-term architectural initiatives while mentoring engineers through significant technology transitions. Known for marrying formal thinking—language design, algorithms, generative testing—with pragmatic delivery, he often translates theoretical insights into developer tooling and workflow improvements that reduce operational friction.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Coop) Theory and Computation, Bachelor of Computer Science (Coop) Theory and Computation at University of New Brunswick
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Github Skills (80)
windows10
gpu10
linux10
rust10
opengl10
vte10
handlebars10
bsd10
macos10
terminal-emulator10
jvm9
fibers8
babashka8
clojure8
emacs8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cvent/hogan
Jul 2019 - Nov 2022
Customized handlebars wrapper, with config inheritance
Contributions:35 releases, 3 reviews, 147 commits in 3 years 5 months
handlebars
jjcomer/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 36 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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