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Joseph Goksu

Senior Platform Engineer

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Joseph Goksu

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Joseph Goksu

Platform Engineer, open-source advocate, AWS Community Builder...

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One of the founding engineers on Tazama (Gates Foundation, Linux Foundation), designed for 3,000 TPS. Later led the LexTego enterprise cloud version at 300 TPS. Builds AWS-native platforms at Obrizum (250k+ users, defence). AWS Community Builder (Security & Identity) since 2022. Peterborough, UK.

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Joseph Goksu builds AWS-native platforms and regulated cloud infrastructure. He joined Tazama, a Gates Foundation-funded transaction monitoring platform now hosted by the Linux Foundation, as one of the founding engineers, and currently builds the AWS-native platform at Obrizum (250,000+ users, defence clients). Through Reaktif he ships Osprey, TaskWing, and Markwise. AWS Community Builder (Security & Identity) since 2022. Based in Peterborough, UK.

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Joseph Goksu joined Tazama, a real-time transaction monitoring platform built to detect fraud and money laundering in emerging markets, as one of the founding engineers. The project was funded by the Gates Foundation and is now hosted by the Linux Foundation. He later led the enterprise-ready cloud version at LexTego; production sat at 300 TPS. Tazama was designed for 3,000 TPS.

He now builds AWS-native platforms at Obrizum serving 250,000+ users including defence sector clients. His work spans infrastructure, developer tooling, and platform reliability at scale.

Outside his day job, Joseph runs Reaktif, shipping Osprey (opensource.finance), TaskWing (taskwing.app), and Markwise (markwise.app).

Joseph leads the Reactive Programming Group and has been an AWS Community Builder (Security & Identity) since 2022.

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Talk topics

Platform Engineering

AWS-native platforms, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and delivery velocity.

DevSecOps

Shifting security left, supply chain integrity, and automated compliance.

Product Development

From zero to one. Roadmapping, user feedback loops, and shipping fast.

Indie Hacking

Building profitable software products as a solo developer.

Solo Founding

Running a one-person company, wearing every hat, staying sane.

Golang Performance

Concurrency patterns, memory optimization, and high-throughput services.

Amazon Web Services

AWS-native platforms, FinOps, Bedrock, and production LLM inference.

Past talks

Building an AI Agent That Detects Financial Crime on AWS

AWS Community Day Turkiye 2026 · Istanbul, Turkiye

May 2026

The AI SecOps Agent That Finds Cloud Misconfigs in Minutes

Dagger Show & Tell · Remote livestream

Apr 2025

The challenges of addressing modern Financial Crime

OpenUK State of Open Con 25 · London, UK

Feb 2025

Independent Product Development

Indie Talks 1 · London, UK (hybrid)

Jan 2021

React Native and AWS Amplify: Onboarding and Authentication

Workshops Series · Remote

Jan 2021

Mobile Development

Google DSC MAKU Tech Series · Remote, Turkiye

Nov 2020