Joshua Suereth

Software Engineer at Fortisphere

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Current
  • Software Engineer + Team Lead at Fortisphere
  • Maven-Scala Maintainer at The Scala Programming Language
Past
Education
  • The Johns Hopkins University
  • Pennsylvania State University
Connections
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Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Joshua Suereth’s Summary

Application Developer, Database Administrator and Software Architect in a variety of applications. Particularly interested in Software Design and Multi-Tiered / Distributed Architecture. Always interesting in trying out cutting edge solutions. Also very interested in Modularization and the OSGi movement. A Scala maintainer, and active in the open-source community.

Joshua Suereth’s Specialties:

Current: Software Design, Software Architecture, Java, Scala, Spring, Hibernate, JEE 1.5, Maven2, HTML, JavaScript, ExtJS, CSS, XML

Past: Ant, Swing, SWT / Eclipse RCP, C++, CORBA (TAO), Automake


Joshua Suereth’s Experience

  • Software Engineer + Team Lead

    Fortisphere

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    May 2008Present (1 year 7 months)

    - Coordinated efforts of 7 member team to produce quality software
    - Worked with Product Development to ensure requirements were attainable and core to the business.
    - Designed and implemented virtual machine management user interface solutions in ExtJS using FusionCharts and Spring/Hibernate
    - Designed + lead the usage of JBoss Rules (formerly Drools) engine for more robust policy-based virtual machine management.
    - Migrated a virtual appliance to new Linux variant for delivery
    - Migrated existing multi-module Ant project in Maven for easier refactoring/migration of code for deployments scenarios.
    - Set up new project infrastructure for continuous integration. Specifically SVN, Archiva and Hudson
    - Enhanced existing JMS-based services for new client requirements

  • Maven-Scala Maintainer

    The Scala Programming Language

    (Computer Software industry)

    April 2008Present (1 year 8 months)

    - Integrate the scala programing language with the maven ecosystem
    - Fix/Enhance the maven-scala-plugin
    - Contribute patches to the eclipse-scala-plugin
    - Coordinate efforts across open-source micro-community developing maven/scala integrations.
    - help maintain the scala-tools.org website.
    - Organized ScalaLiftOff Conference in Reston, VA on October 30th, 2009

  • Java Web Developer

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    August 2007April 2008 (9 months)

    * Developing Java Visualizations for Disease Surveillance using Eclipse RCP
    * Developing Web Visualizations for Disease Surveillance using Spring, Hibernate and ExtJS
    * Integrating Water-borne illness detection algorithms with Disease Surveillance

  • Software Engineer

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

    (Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

    June 2004August 2007 (3 years 3 months)

    * Recording information from IPS sonar system using C++, CORBA, Boost, Automake and interfacing with proprietary middlewares
    * Maintaining/Administering MySQL Database
    * Developing Java Visualizations for Sonar system data using Swing, JDBC and Ant
    * Designed & Developed third-iteration of proprietary high-speed Graphing/Charting library


Joshua Suereth’s Education

  • The Johns Hopkins University

    MS , Computer Science , 20052008

  • Pennsylvania State University

    BS , Computer Science + Mathematics , 20002004


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Joshua Suereth’s Interests:

new technology, music (composing and listening), software architecture

Joshua Suereth’s Groups:

  •    Java Posse
  •    Java EE Professionals
  •    Scala enthusiasts

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