Summary
Joshua Sullivan is a seasoned software engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and operating cloud platforms and developer-focused tooling, currently managing engineering for Heroku within Salesforce. He progressed from principal engineer on Heroku Runtime to senior engineering manager, blending deep runtime and platform expertise with team leadership and product delivery. Based in Bend, Oregon, Joshua has a strong background across startups and large enterprises (AT&T, G5, Advanced Energy) and co-founded the long-running Ruby on Ales conference, signaling community commitment and Ruby ecosystem roots. He is known for translating complex operational challenges into reliable, scalable systems and for mentoring engineers to ship production-grade platform software.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer