# Joshua Apostoli

> Software Engineer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/joshuaapostoli

Boston-based Software Engineer looking for full-time Software Engineering or Security position starting immediately.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II and Security Champion @ Toast
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Continuously developed and delivered features for a centralized public Kotlin REST API for placing and
editing restaurant orders in the Toast environment and oversaw its growth in average requests per
second by four orders of magnitude over four years
• Architected and rebuilt a legacy internal order history service from scratch helping to pioneer the
company-wide usage of DynamoDB and becoming a template for future implementations
• Championed and integrated security best practices across all team-owned services and processes
including code scanning with Snyk/Fortify, and aligning with NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
• Addressed and patched various security vulnerabilities, including leaked private tokens, escalation of
privileges, and authorization/authentication bypasses
• Cultivated innovation by supporting external teams’ code contributions and conducting hundreds of
regular releases to deliver highly desired customer-facing features on time
• Consistently monitored and delivered 99.99% availability with low latency and minimized customer
impact despite an ever-growing service with irregular and occasionally unpredictable usage patterns

### Video Production Assistant @ GoNUxStream/Howlin' Huskies Productions
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Area
•	Collaborate with team of fellow production assistants to produce a pseudo-professional real-time broadcast of Northeastern University events
•	Contribute to a successful broadcast in multiple ways, such as operating the camera, updating the scoreboard, and recording individual player statistics

### Systems Integration Engineer Co-op @ Starry, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
• Devised a system for storing abstract test results in MariaDB and retrieving them later through a Flask API using HTTPS requests
• Contributed to multiple Python automated testing suites to test and provision proprietary Starry equipment before their deployment

### Systems Integration Engineer Co-op @ Starry, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
•	Built and managed a modular RF link monitoring set of microservices using Docker and Python that periodically measures various elements of all deployed RF devices 
•	Implemented and continuously developed a Python-based data visualization service that plots and summarizes aggregated device data for critical decision making regarding deployed sites.
•	Created a Python wrapper and command line tools around a third-party network monitoring service that are used regularly for troubleshooting and diagnostics
•	Designed and built a graphical user interface for automated test suites using Flask, HTML, CSS and Javascript to be used by factory technicians in quality testing Starry equipment

### Operations Engineer and Desktop Support @ Arrowstreet Capital, L.P.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
•	Interacted closely with business users and development teams, providing support on complex software, hardware, and networking issues 	
•	Created and maintained small automation scripts related to computer imaging


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Northeastern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-apostoli-45657114a

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Last updated: 2026-03-31