Jowanza Joseph
Founder CEO at Parakeet
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolJowanza Joseph is a founder and seasoned software leader with 11 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams across startups and enterprise environments. As Founder & CEO of Parakeet he’s translating deep technical experience—spanning distributed microservices, streaming ETL, and data platform design—into a compliance automation and risk management platform tailored to industrial operations. Previously he led engineering and principal software roles at companies including Finicity (Mastercard), Pluralsight, and Edge by Ascential, delivering scalable architectures on AWS, Spark, and real-time pipelines. He pairs an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech with a background in economics and statistics, which informs a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to product and risk problems. Known for moving quickly from prototype to production, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership to tame complex regulatory and data workflows. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he’s focused on eliminating industrial risk through automation and auditable systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyEconomics B.A. / Mathematics B.S. Minor in Statistics, Economics B.A. / Mathematics B.S. Minor in Statistics at Brigham Young University
German
Stackoverflow
288reputation
151kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (60)
mahout10
python10
cuda10
rust10
machine-learning9
data-replication8
shiny8
r7
data-stream7
apache-zookeeper7
akka7
scala7
kafka7
streaming7
google-play6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
josep2/SparkDataGenerator
Dec 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
josep2/Jathena
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Proof of concept open source Amazon Athena
Contributions:17 commits, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
amazon-athenaathenaapache-drillminioapache-zookeeper
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