# Joshua Reback

> Software Engineer Director at Gradient AI

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Director @ Gradient AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Sr Manager Software Engineering @ Gradient AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Software Engineer Manager @ Gradient AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gradient AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Gradient AI
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Quid
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Led the design and implementation of a data pipeline for augmenting Quid's news dataset with readership demographic data.
* Helped plan and execute a zero-downtime upgrade of Quid's Elasticsearch cluster, which resulted in over $100K of infrastructure savings and performance improvements in search and aggregation operations.
* Refactored and parallelized computations within one of Quid's primary backend services to achieve 20% faster response times.
* Owned the end-to-end implementation of the subsidiary-search capability, a highly requested feature from several of Quid's marquee clients.

Worked primarily with Elasticsearch (completed the Level II Engineer training), Python, and Apache Spark (Scala and Java).

### CTO @ ClozeLoop
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Knowledge management for sales teams.  I was involved in implementing every layer of the technology stack: deployment, server-side, API integrations with Slack and Salesforce (Clozeloop is listed on both public app exchanges), frontend architecture, and UI/UX.

### Software Engineer @ Edmodo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo, California
I worked across the stack on several projects, including (reverse chronological order): Search, Library, Sync, and Snapshot.

I also gained experience with: Backbone.js & Marionette.js, Ruby on Rails, Python, Thrift, Elasticsearch, and MySQL.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked across a range of Google’s infrastructure, coordinated with teams on 3 continents, and coded in Python, JavaScript, and HTML to integrate a new type of content into the Play for Education web store. Only intern to demo at the first ever Android in Education monthly all hands meeting.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania

### Winston Churchill High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshua-reback-43810279

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Last updated: 2026-03-31