~ whoami
Josh English
Full-stack software engineer at AWS
I'm a full-stack engineer who likes building things people actually use. Right now I'm finishing an MS in CS at Georgia Tech (OMSCS) on nights and weekends. Away from the keyboard: motorcycles, finance rabbit holes, wine, and a golf game that isn't getting any better.
Writing
All posts → Goal, constraint, verify. How I work with agents. Coding agents are good at doing the work and bad at knowing when they are done. Here is the loop I use to fix that, the /goal command in Claude Code that runs it, and a real example from wiring up an ORATS data feed. When a rearset swap ended with my Panigale V4S brake line on fire I swapped the rearsets on my Ducati Panigale V4S and set off a chain of rear brake problems that ended with the brake line on fire on the West Seattle Bridge. Here is what happened and how it got sorted out. When my Panigale V4S lost its N My 2025 Ducati Panigale V4S started showing a dash instead of an N for neutral, which killed the quick shifter too. Here is what went wrong and how Ducati fixed it. Who am I? A quick introduction to who Josh English is and isn't: a full-stack engineer at AWS, OMSCS student, motorcycle rider, and problem solver, and what to expect from this blog.