# Joseph Barsness

> Senior Software Engineer at Censys

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephbarsness

I love to write, build, and facilitate things that foster a great software development experience. I thrive in fully-remote roles as a software engineer/engineering manager on a developer experience team or in a role that otherwise enables software engineers to do their best work.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Censys
Jan 2024 – Present
Censys Search
* Developed distributed systems and services to archive and query Internet scan data in near-real time.
* Maintained the interpreters that convert Censys's search language into database queries, working across teams to optimize request output.

### Software Engineer @ Censys
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, WA
Censys ASM
* Built and maintained an in-house backend framework to power custom data visualizations and dashboards, significantly improving velocity for frontend teams. 
* Led design and development of an improved API gateway caching layer, achieving a ~3x reduction in average dashboard load time.

### Technical Writing Intern @ HBO Max
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
You.i Platform
* Authored developer-facing API docs and guides.

HBO Max
* Bootstrapped an automated developer onboarding framework and accompanying CI pipeline, enabling teams to reduce environment configuration time from days to minutes.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Censys
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Censys ASM
* Developed services used to identify cloud storage misconfigurations at scale.
* Contributed technical documentation to the product's internal documentation wiki.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Northeastern University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Hosted tutoring sessions, conducted grading, and mentored for a cohort of 20 students.

### Biomedical Ethics Research Intern @ Mayo Clinic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Rochester, Minnesota Area
Proposed the use of natural language processing to analyze medical society position statements, leading to first authorship and publication of a novel peer-reviewed study.

Conducted literature review for various research teams, notably to study bias in health care rationing proposals as well as patient interactions with pacemakers featuring telemetry.

Used: Python, G Suite

Publications and Conferences:
Barsness, J.G., Regnier, C.R., Hook, C.C. et al. US medical and surgical society position statements on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: a review. BMC Med Ethics 21, 111 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00556-5

Thorsteinsdottir, B, Barsness, J.G., Beck, A. Should We Limit Access to Dialysis for Patients at Advanced Age?. Oral research presentation at: American Society for Bioethics + Humanities Conference; October 2019; Pittsburgh, PA


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science - MSCS
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Philosophy
Hamline University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephgbarsness

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Last updated: 2026-03-30