# Josh McGrath

> Seeking opportunities to help establish high-performing, fun, and durable product engineering cultures at early-stage startups

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshmcgrath

I’ve worked on a hardware/software/language co-design research project (at BAE Systems); ingestion, storage, and analytics for Alexa’s machine learning data platform (at Amazon); infrastructure for news, and analytics for Android (at Google); and most recently a smattering of engineering, product, and culture for a growing office (at Smartsheet). You can find more about what I’ve done on my resume.

Since being introduced to software engineering in college, I’ve enjoyed that it allows me to build things with very few constraints. At the same time, I believe it is fairly distinct from most other engineering disciplines. In the spirit of Worse is Better, most modern and effective approaches to software engineering focus on finding working solutions quickly through iterative approaches rather than trying to build working solutions from first principles.

And while it’s easy to just focus on the coding and technical aspects of software engineering, at its heart it’s a collaborative, human effort. For this reason, and from seeing the effects of interviewing done well and poorly, respectively, I’ve come to care deeply about and invest a lot of time in thinking about and practicing interviewing skills.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Aeqium
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
- Second hire
- Co-developed many core features with early customers including compensation cycles with custom inputs, user-configurable formulas, and lookups
- Lead several process improvements from within the engineering team
- Interviewed engineering candidates across coding, system design, and behavioral areas
- Mentored engineers

### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Smartsheet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Coached teams on modern development practices, devops, and ensuring technical work translates into customer value
- Drove cultural change within engineering leadership in the Boston office
- Helped develop technical and product strategy for scalability of core product

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
- Developed tools and user experience metrics to enable data-driven decision making for Android UI features
- Utilized languages including Java, Bash, Python, Javascript, and SQL

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018
- Developed full-stack solutions to support ground-truthing and ingestion of data for Alexa machine learning
- Functioned as technical lead for team-scale projects, from requirements gathering and design to implementation and operational support
- Mentored and coached junior engineers and reviewed designs within the team
- Utilized languages including Java, Javascript, and Python
- Utilized AWS services including Redshift, DynamoDB, SQS, S3, and Kinesis

### Software Engineer @ BAE Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
- SAFE was a clean slate design of a secure system (architecture through programming languages and operating system). See the website for additional information
- Implemented tests, applications (e.g. in-memory file system), libraries (e.g. trie, printf), and OS components (e.g. buddy allocator, thread creation, IPC) in C-like language
- Developed tools in Haskell, Python, Bash, and Make for speeding up development, simplifying workflows, and performing automated testing

### Research Engineer @ Northeastern University - CCIS
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Performed programming language research and implementation
- Implemented Racket benchmark, a library for statistically-sound benchmarking

### Software Engineer @ BAE Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics and Computer Science
Brandeis University

### Physics and Mathematics
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josh-mcgrath-15719a64
- Portfolio: https://joshmcgrath08.github.io/resume/resume.html
- Portfolio: https://joshmcgrath08.github.io/blog/
- GitHub: https://github.com/joshmcgrath08

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Last updated: 2026-03-31