Josh Lee
Open Source Developer Advocate
Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Lee is an Open Source Developer Advocate with 11 years of experience building developer-first tooling and observability solutions, currently driving community and product engagement at Altinity. His background blends hands-on engineering—from PHP, Node.js, and React to Erlang/Elixir—and product roles at IBM Instana, giving him fluency across observability, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native deployments. He founded and led small consultancies and teams, scaling delivery for clients ranging from startups to public figures, and now organizes The Open Source Analytics Conference to foster accessible analytics practices. Based in Great Barrington, MA, he champions sustainable business practices and empowerment through open source, pairing practical implementation experience with a communicator’s knack for making complex systems approachable.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
N/A, Linguistic Anthropology, Computer Science, N/A, Linguistic Anthropology, Computer Science at University of VermontBerkshire School
English
Stackoverflow
85reputation
11kreached
12answers
2questions
Github Skills (69)
opentelemetry-collector10
jaeger10
opentelemetry10
microservices10
opentelemetry-go10
prometheus10
counter10
opentelemetry-rust10
charts9
kubernetes-operator9
helm9
bitnami9
vmware9
clickhouse9
kubernetes9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
joshleecreates/nixos-proxmox
Jun 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
joshleecreates/nix-config
Dec 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 51 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 6 months
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