Josh

Hey, I'm Josh!

I'm a Senior Backend Engineer at Futuri Media. I was born and raised in North Jersey, but now I live outside of Philadelphia with my wife and dog Smity! Throughout my career, I've built systems across a wide range of industries—from ballistic missile defense to fashion, and most recently, AI in the media space. I love taking on new challenges, no matter the field.

Some of my recent projects include: the world's first AI DJ on live radio, AI-generated spec spot commercials, and AI-powered audiobook production.

I primarily code in Python and TypeScript, but lately, I've been exploring Go and really enjoying its simplicity and powerful concurrency model. Goroutines and channels make it a joy to work with for highly concurrent applications, and I'm to find more applications for it!

If you asked me what my favorite language is today, I'd say Racket. It's a Lisp language that I love for its powerful macro system, which lets me create my own domain-specific languages (DSLs) with ease!

Education

I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Seton Hall University, graduating Magna Cum Laude.

While studying, I had the opportunity to work with Dr. Marco T. Morazan, conducting research in compiler design and building a Domain Specific Language called FSM . My work on FsM was published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science .

I also presented my research at Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) and Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL).

Work Experience

Futuri Media LLC

Senior Backend Developer • August 2023 - April 2026

  • Led backend development of AI-powered media platforms used in production across radio and emergency broadcast systems
  • Built AudioAI: an AI-driven radio assistant used by ~60 stations to generate and schedule live broadcast content, achieving ~99% uptime with Redis caching and rate limiting
  • Engineered SpotOn: scalable APIs for AI-generated audio/video ads using multiple providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, ElevenLabs, ResembleAI), with multi-provider failover and latency-aware load balancing
  • Developed Beacon: AI-driven emergency broadcast system processing FEMA and weather alerts with 99.9% uptime across AWS regions
  • Built AI Video Vendor (Go): service consuming jobs from AWS SQS, distributing requests across 10+ external vendors using adaptive load balancing, retries, and failover strategies
  • Led infrastructure transformation with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker, reducing deployment time from ~8 to ~3.5 minutes and lowering infrastructure costs
  • Implemented centralized logging, metrics, and tracing using Grafana and Prometheus for full system observability
  • Mentored junior and mid-level engineers and contributed to system architecture decisions across projects

JOOR

Fullstack Developer • December 2021 - August 2023

  • Backend-oriented full-stack software engineer working on one of the 3 core teams for JOOR (Series D Startup), the largest wholesale fashion marketplace, facilitating over 18 billion dollars in transactions annually.
  • Primarily developing an API and web application servicing over 350,000 global retailers written with Typescript/Javascript, React, Python, Django, GraphQL, gRPC, and Postgres DB.
  • Rewrote the web applications client-side caching logic for a 100% improvement in performance.
  • Designed and developed a recursive GraphQL schema for a new API endpoint that allows retailers to create nested budgets across multiple orders.
  • Developed fixes for critical backend bugs related to performance and query optimization issues.
  • Implemented a comprehensive end-to-end test suite to prevent regressions using Cypress testing framework.
  • Ranked among the top 3 out of 70+ developers in Productive Impact score on Code Climate.
  • Delivered on time SaaS applications for the highest performing team in the company.

ASRC Federal Mission Solutions Engineering

Junior Developer • October 2020 - December 2021

  • Designed and developed Ballistic Missile Defense capabilities for the Aegis Combat System which is currently deployed on U.S. Missile Destroyers
  • Structured and extended several software components of the Aegis Combat System in order to track and destroy Ballistic Missiles with jamming capabilities
  • Worked within an Agile team and helped prioritize feature requests to ensure that the largest impact features were delivered first
  • Built extensive test coverage for new missile tracking components in order to validate critical code logic
  • Designed Python and Bash scripts to help streamline review process and CI pipeline
  • Certificate of Appreciation awarded for developing functional system upgrades under a tight deadline.