Joshua Shanks

Joshua Shanks is a highly experienced software engineer with a strong background in infrastructure and backend development. Currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Protect AI since October 2024, Joshua previously held key roles including Staff Infrastructure Engineer at SentiLink, Member of Technical Staff at Chronosphere, and Senior Software Engineer at Stripe, where expertise extended to reliability patterns and service networking. Prior positions included Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Reciprocity, Inc., Staff Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Indeed, Senior Backend Engineer at Redfin and Tune, and Senior Software Engineer at Placed. Joshua's career began as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon.com, contributing to major projects like Cobranded Credit Card and AWS Marketplace. Joshua earned a BS in Computer Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin in 2006.