Joshua Stauffer
Software engineer · MusicianI'm a musician and software engineer based in Ticino, Switzerland. After a decade performing on lutes and guitars across the US and Europe, I now spend most of my time writing software.
I'm a senior software engineer at Great Expectations, where I joined the founding GX Cloud team in 2021. GX Cloud is a SaaS data-quality platform built around the company's open-source Python library. My current focus is agentic AI systems — both for maintaining the open-source library and for new product features inside the cloud.
Outside of work, my largest public project is the History Atlas — an open-source web application correlating historical people, places, and times in an interactive map and event feed. Two ingestion pipelines feed it: a self-hosted Wikidata instance for mass entity extraction, and an Anthropic-API-driven pipeline that mines structured events from scholarly historical works.
More on GitHub.
A few recent performances.
SoloRecent collaborations include the Ojai Music Festival with Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi, an appearance with Twelfth Night at Carnegie Hall, and a baroque folk record with Rebecca Scout Nelson. Earlier work has taken me to Opera Holland Park, the Royal Opera House Versailles, and Chamber Music New Zealand, alongside The Sebastians, Philharmonia Baroque, and the Lakes Area Music Festival, among others. I specialize on the theorbo. I studied lute at Juilliard, classical guitar at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and jazz guitar at the University of the Arts.