Joe Hosteny

About Joe Hosteny

Specialties: Software architecture, distributed systems, high availability, filesystems, databases, cloud roboticsExtensive experience with various cloud providers, including AWS and AzureDevOps, Terraform, AnsibleC, C++, Python, Elixir, Erlang, SQL, Clojure, Java, JavascriptCustomer supportTechnical writing

Experience

1. Head of Cloud and Fleet Systems at Thoro Ai

   Thoro.ai

   Oct 2021 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Responsible for all activities related to fleet management of a multi-OEM autonomy stack, including IoT device management, core cloud related on-robot code, customer and developer facing web applications and support tools, build infrastructure, and backend systems. Designed and built a custom OTA update solution to support a fleet of robots. Designed a distributed object sharing system that allows robots to share data, including maps, missions and other operational data in near real time. Co-architected and built a system for dynamic updates of robot maps layered on top of the data sharing system. Designed and built reporting tools for monitoring robot performance, providing both telemetry based data and mission based coverage reports.

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1997 — 1997

• Carnegie Mellon University

  B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Xml
• C
• Software Development
• Html
• Python
• File Systems
• Operating Systems
• Linux
• C++
• Javascript
• Amazon Ec2
• Algorithms
• Mysql
• Distributed Systems
• Web Applications
• Software Design
• Ruby on Rails
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Debugging
• Distributed File Systems
• Shell Scripting
• Test Automation
• Nfs
• Unix
• Cloud Computing
• Postgresql
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Storage
• Ruby
• High Performance Computing
• Nas
• High Availability