Welcome, I'm Josh Kaplan. I am a software engineer with a passion for problem solving.
With over a decade of experience as a software engineer, my technical expertise in focuses on software architecture, displined Agile and DevOps practices, and applying systems thinking to create solutions that solve useful problem.
Aside from my professional interests, I enjoy a variety of intellectual curiosities from crossword puzzles and astronomy to guitar and cooking.
Architecture
In this article we discuss agile methods for developing, versioning, and distributing architecture that aligns with agile values and principles.
Paper
In this paper, I expllore gap between formal and informal architecture with an emphasis on how to leverage informal architecture artifacts for formal analysis. I present a methodology for creating formal structured models from informal diagrams.
Article
A set of guidelines for individuals to contribute to project success. Written initially for student teams, this is applicable to academia and industry alike.
Project
An ongoing project to digitize my technical and engineering notes. The goal of this project is to create digital copies of the things I may need to revisit or reference. A side benefit is that much of it may be general-purpose enough to be applicable to others.
An introduction to the concept of DevOps for systems engineering.
A new methodology for creating formal structured models from informal architecture artifacts is presented. The methodology is demonstrated using a sample architecture diagram and the resulting model is analyzed using graph analysis techniques.
An exploration of how to use types in TypeScript.
In this article, we discuss authentication flows in OpenID Connect (OIDC). We provide a hands-on example using Keycloak to demonstrate how OIDC works in practice.
Spectra is a data engineering and data science project to support engineering student capstone programs. We now capture more than 250,000 data points per year across 120 teams and automatically analyze and flag anomalies for instructor attention.
