Data Platform & Distributed Systems Expert
Josh Orr is Backend Software and Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Postgres, various AWS services, and distributed computing concepts. He's gone from individual contributor to people manager and back. Josh's experience is both technical and soft skills oriented and he's experienced and open to coaching on both.
Have a difficult update to perform? Need some help understanding Aurora tooling? Want to generally build your knowledge about the platform? Let's talk.
1:1 coaching for engineers building real-world platforms focused on reliability, observability, data pipelines, and reducing operational toil. We work through your actual systems (Postgres, Kafka, connectors, infra) to design solutions that hold up under production pressure—not just in theory. Topics include resilient architecture, stable data pipelines, Postgres performance, and practical automation (including AI-assisted tooling).