Josh Frye

Platform / DevOps / Backend
github.com/joshfng • linkedin.com/in/joshfng • Resume (PDF) • Resume (DOCX)

Summary

Platform engineer with 15+ years building products, developer tools and infrastructure at scale.

Projects

GitHost

githost.io/
Managed GitLab Hosting
  • Was handed off to GitLab and has since been shut down. Automated GitLab setup and upgrades, provisioned automatic SSL, preconfigured CI runners.

RailsReady

github.com/joshfng/railsready
Ruby and Rails setup script for Linux systems
  • Now retired. Automated the cumbersome process of setting up Ruby on OSX years ago when it was incredibly difficult and error prone.

All open source projects →

Experience

Senior DevOps Engineer

May 2024 - Nov 2025
Patriot Software, Canton, OH
  • Designed and implemented GitOps workflows using Flux, GitHub Actions, and AWS CDK for multi-cluster Kubernetes management, reducing deployment errors and improving auditability.
  • Legacy deployment support on Azure w/ IIS.
  • Designed and implemented PostgreSQL logical replication using Snowflake Openflow to sync all databases in realtime to snowflake.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2022 - May 2024
Frye Consulting, Canton, OH
  • Provided DevOps and Platform engineering consulting for startups, focusing on Kubernetes migrations, CI/CD pipeline optimization, and infrastructure automation.

Senior Platform Engineer

Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Papa Inc, Miami, FL
  • Built an Internal Developer Platform from scratch, reducing service deployment time from hours to under 15 minutes and enabling engineering teams to ship new services in a consistent and reliable manner.
  • This included a chatops driven coordinator that interfaced with GitHub Actions, Amazon ECR, Amazon EKS, Docker Hub, Helm, and Kubernetes.

Senior Lead Software Engineer

Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
StackShare, San Francisco, CA
  • Owned all backend systems powering StackShare's frontend APIs and implemented GraphQL.
  • Worked on scaling issues and refactoring technical debt as well as writing supporting apis for new feature development.
  • Helped get our engineering team focused on performance.
  • Managed all devops work, including infrastructure deployed on Heroku, DigitalOcean, AWS, and GCP, as well as Dockerized our application and maintained our CI systems.
  • Handled alerting and management of 3 Kubernetes clusters running on GCP deployed via custom chatbot and helm charts as well as handling on-call incidents, stability, performance, and uptime issues, and managing outsourced consultants.

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
GitLab Inc, San Francisco, CA
  • Joined via acquisition of GitHost. Delivered product features and backend Rails and Postgres performance improvements to help scale gitlab.com as it hit explosive growth.
  • Contributed to the Gogs open source project.

Founder

Dec 2014 - Dec 2015
GitHost, Brooklyn, NY
  • Founded and built GitHost, a platform for automated deployment, management, and upgrades of private self hosted GitLab instances in the cloud.
  • Adopted by GitLab Inc. in 2015 and I later joined the GitLab team as a Senior Software Engineer.

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
HashiCorp, San Francisco, CA
  • Collaborated on the development of Docker-integrated products and infrastructure automation tools during the company's foundational growth phase.

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 - Jul 2014
DigitalOcean Inc, New York, NY
  • Worked on the backend VM scheduling system/hypervisor.
  • Rebuilt the VM disk image generation system responsible for deploying VMs on DigitalOcean ("One-click deployments"), as well as the first version of their rest api written in Ruby.
  • Wrote the first Android app for VM management before I was hired.

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
Etsy, Brooklyn, NY
  • Served on the "Core" team as a performance specialist for a platform serving 95 million users.
  • Refactored critical paths across the software stack to ensure page response times met strict SLAs, directly impacting user experience and conversion rates.

Software Engineer

Sep 2010 - Nov 2011
Wyred LLC, Columbus, OH
  • Built backend APIs in PHP and MySQL to support the company's web and mobile applications.
  • Managed deployments and resolved scaling problems.

Skills

Infrastructure & Tools

  • AWS, GCP, EKS, ECR, Terraform, Ansible, CDK, Azure
  • Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Containerd, Buildx, Multi-arch images
  • Postgresql
  • GitHub, GitLab, Nginx, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat)

Monitoring & Reliability

  • Datadog, Service Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy, Promtail, OpenTelemetry

Disciplines

  • ChatOps, GitOps, Internal Developer Platforms

Languages

  • Ruby, Elixir, Go, Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HCL