Joshua Engroff
About Joshua Engroff
Joshua Engroff is the Lead Software Engineer at Brookfield Asset Management in the New York City Metropolitan Area, specializing in backend architectures and large language models.
Title and Current Position
Joshua Engroff is currently the Lead Software Engineer at Brookfield Asset Management. He operates out of the New York City Metropolitan Area. His role involves overseeing application monitoring, security, and performance, as well as designing and building cloud services.
Previous Experience
Joshua Engroff brings a wealth of experience from various roles he has held in the tech industry. He worked at Marching Ant Design Group as both a Software Engineer (2019-2021) and Technical Product Manager (2017-2019) in New York City. Furthermore, he served as Chief Digital Officer and Managing Partner at KBS (kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners) from 2013 to 2017 and was the Head of Product at EveryScreen Media, Inc. between 2011 and 2013. His career also includes roles at Billboard as SVP, Digital (2008-2011) and at Jango as Co-Founder (2006-2008).
Education and Expertise
Joshua Engroff holds a Master's Degree in Germanic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics from Princeton University. He also studied Linguistics on a Fulbright Fellowship at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Germanic Languages from the University of Vermont. His educational background provides a strong foundation for his expertise in backend architectures, large language models such as Anthropic, and a variety of technologies including Python, Bash/Shell, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and more.
Technical Skills and Specializations
Joshua Engroff specializes in designing and building backend architectures with a focus on large language models like Anthropic. His technical skill set includes Python, Bash/Shell, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Django, FastAPI, Node.js, React, Pandas, Docker, and AWS services such as Bedrock, EC2, RDS, S3, Transcribe, Translate, and Lambda. In his current role, he is responsible for database schema design and build, data manipulation and migration operations, and the design and build of both REST and GraphQL APIs. He also handles container orchestration and code integration.