# Josh Glick > Software engineer. Location: Columbus, Ohio, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshglick ## Work Experience ### Director, Staff Engineer @ Pfizer Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Remote Led the Commercial Analytics Engineering Pipeline team focused on building a set of tools to orchestrate Analytics workflows across Snowflake, SQLServer, S3, and Sharepoint via Airflow and Github Actions. Mentored junior engineers and drove overall design through code and design review. Focused effort on upgrades via Github Actions and Jenkins CI API that automated our release process and increased our total release velocity from 1 release every 4 sprints to 8 releases per sprint. Designed and built config driven data validation leveraging open source Great Expectations framework. Allowed analytics team members to generate all expectations through simple JSON config and included custom expectations based on brand specific needs. Automated reporting of validation errors and reporting through S3 and Teams automation. Introduced automated unit testing leveraging the Snowpark local testing package and Github Actions that allowed for analytics engineers to build and run their tests with every PR and as part of the automated releasing. Created automated checks for Schema Migration to eliminate unintended breaking changes ### Sr. Software Development Engineer (SDE III) @ Amazon Games Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Remote - Worked with projects across Java, Scala, Typescript, and Python to manage a complete data pipeline for ML audience generation for Amazon GamesGrowth Ads team. Ingested internal data from across Amazon and external data, provided a framework for Data Scientists to sanitize and combine the features, perform Training and Inference, and provided published audiences. Helped scale for growth of campaigns and Ad spend of 8x YoY. Pipeline supported generation and training on hundreds of features for hundreds of millions of customers across 1000+ campaigns in 2023. - Led team in codifying infrastructure with AWS CDK and Cloudformation. With a focus on security best practices and principle of least privilege. Designed a new S3 storage solution to build from a config and to meet the standards of the new EU DMA regulations. - Created a new service to integrate Amazon Ads event based framework for data readiness allowing ingestion of data on an event basis instead of on a set schedule allowing fresher data and lowering costs on pulling duplicate data - Mentored junior engineers via pair programming and run books to tackle on-call challenges and ensure that customer impact was minimal while still providing an opportunity for knowledge share Developed a new team process for Engineering Demos following each sprint with a focus on knowledge share and reflection. Demo’s were guided by a survey focusing on customer value, highlights and lowlights and any technical debt / learnings going forward. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Peloton Interactive Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Technical lead of the Cooldown 2021, a year-in–review data project which generated a unique recap for 6 million users using Spark and AWSGlue to process tables with over 1 billion rows. Supported 5 million visits in the last two weeks of the year and over 211,000 unique asset downloads. Owned integration with external partners to securely access data, generate and store over 100 million unique assets. Presented the project at company all hands to all levels as part of the core team. Launched Movements feature as part of a cross functional team, leading the API development. Managed transition of work of a 12 month project to help for the last 4 months through launch and fast follow. Update Python backend as well as GraphQL service in Kotlin and Typescript to support access across multiple platforms. Analyzed new endpoints to minimize increase in both number of connections to database and latency for endpoints affected by new feature. Worked with Guide team to support new features of a platform launch for all existing platforms to keep user experience consistent. Develop new team member onboarding for functional domain with a focus on introduction to tools, process, and existing code bases. Leveraged own onboarding experience to generate a repeatable exercise and documentation to help new engineers at all levels join the team and served as a mentor to new engineers. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Biden for President Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Remote Worked across many different disciplines to deliver value for both voters and campaign staff to help drive a remote-first campaign. Worked with a small team to build web applications, mobile applications, ETL data projects, anti-abuse projects, and more quickly and with cybersecurity as a top priority across them. We were a flexible team working across many different technologies to ensure we were able to deliver the most value by using the right tool for the job. I worked with Go, Python, Ratpack, Groovy, ReactJS, ReactNative, PHP, Swift, and Java -- learning many of these languages and frameworks on the go. Some of the projects I was responsible for: - Launched the TeamJoe Android and iOS and optimized UX for 50000 downloads. Created custom ReactNative components for text messaging. - Optimized PostgreSQL and Groovy peer-to-peer texting platform increasing RPS by 100x for Super Tuesday scale (1MM messages / 24 h) - Built and managed joebiden.com with peak requests per second of over 300k. The website raised over 200MM. Realtime donation tracking built in GO with AWS Lambda - Built and launched React Javascript makeaplan.com to help users find and make a plan to vote. Garnered 560,000 visitors and a 20% conversion rate for users committing to a specific vote plan. - Created a pingdom replacement leveraging Kubernetes to monitor key websites for downtime during critical voter registration periods. - Integrated new team members for the last 3 months of the general election, helping to bring new employees up to speed as quickly as possible on several different projects ### Founder, Head of Product Engineering @ LISNR Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Remote I worked to build an engineering team that could transition from early stage product development to deliver on the needs of customers and investors. Grew the engineering team to 3x size and helped put in place practices to guide engineering culture. Helped to hire VP of Engineering to provide senior leadership within engineering. Continued to serve as technical product lead for high priority projects ### Founder, Lead Engineer @ LISNR Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 I lead the software design of LISNR's sales tools, portals and SDKs. I helped switch the team process over to a scrum agile methodology and continue to run sprints and refine our process. My responsibilities include new technical discovery, managing tech debt backlog, and aiding in product roadmap planning. Attended TechStars RGA Accelerator class of Winter 15 with the team. ### Founder, Lead Developer @ LISNR Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 As Lead Developer I oversaw day to day development of our backend and mobile applications. I helped to fulfill a gap in our Django application development capacity and helped train and transition new team members in our previous codebase. I handled internal development for mobile applications and demos for several key customers. ### Founder, iOS Developer @ LISNR Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Cincinnati iOS developer for early stage startup. Built main application, custom SDKs for processing high frequency audio, and demos for new business. Helped design APIs and system architecture. ### Mobile Developer @ eProximiti Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Columbus, OH iPhone Application Development Intern Led application development in the healthcare space focusing on diabetes and doctor to patient communication. Was the primary developer on both projects with oversight from company CTO. ### Factory Automation Intern @ Intel Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Business Analyst for all site in house communications. Develop schedules and communications. Work with customers to deliver the best content on time. Programmer for web applications to help automate daily tasks in the fab environment to help smooth business processes. ### Store Systems Program Analyst Intern @ Limited Brands Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 Summer Internship Program with a focus on developing in house tools to support further development and testers ### Computer Science Research Assistant @ The Ohio State University Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ### Software Development Intern @ I.M. Systems Group Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Worked with team of engineers on website updating Worked with large SQL databases Updated code to .Net 2.0 ## Education ### B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering The Ohio State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshglick --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshglick JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshglick/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22