Josh Harshman

Principal Architect & Engineering Leader • Cloud Infrastructure Specialist • Go Developer

👋 Hello

I’m Josh — a Principal Architect and Manager at Bitly, where I lead teams building large-scale, resilient systems.
My background is rooted in infrastructure and backend systems — from bare-metal Linux to distributed services running in Kubernetes. I'm obsessed with clean interfaces, long-lived systems, and teams that run like well-tuned machines.

I work in Go, thrive in Linux, and design infrastructure that scales.

🔧 Core Technologies

🧠 What I Value

• Clear, opinionated design.
• Systems that shut down cleanly.
• Tracing everything.
• Automation over tribal knowledge.
• A team that owns its tools and runs its own pager.

📬 Let’s Connect

If you're building infrastructure, Go tools, or curious about how to scale teams as well as systems — feel free to reach out.