Joshua K. Reed

Senior Staff Software Engineer

with 15 years of professional experience.

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Education

  • Master of Science

    Aerospace Engineering

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA

    Specialized in Flight Dynamics & Control Systems

    Thesis: Designed & Built and F-16 Flight Simulator

  • Bachelor of Science

    Computer Engineering

    George Mason University, Fairfax VA

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Technical Skills

  • Programming

    • C/C++, Python, Java, Matlab
    • Bash, Shell, Make, CMake, Bazel
    • Software Packaging: Conan, Pip
    • Object Oriented Programming
    • Software Architecture
  • DevOps

    • Ansible, Terraform
    • Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm
    • Kubernetes, Helm, FluxCD
    • Nexus Repository, Lifecycle
    • SonarQube, Selenium, Robot
    • Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Atlassian Jira & Bitbucket
    • AWS
  • Hardware

    • Assembly, VHDL, FPGA
    • Embedded Systems
    • High Performance Computing (HPC), Slurm
  • Operating Systems

    • Unix/Linux
    • Windows
    • RTOS
  • Web

    • HTML/CSS/Bootstrap
    • JavaScript, jQuery, NodeJS
    • MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
    • Python - Flask, Celery, Jinja2, Pandas, NumPy
    • ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
    • Nginx
  • Exposure

    • GCP
    • Rust
    • AI/ML - CNN

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Professional Experience

  • July 2024 - Present

    Wisk Aero (A Boeing Company), Remote, CO

    Staff Software Engineer - Simulation Tools


    Building Tools for an entire company.

    • Architected and built a Hardware in the Loop Simulation Framework solution using Protobuf, Python, C/C++, and a Real Time Operating System Data Acquisition platform.
    • Developed an Interface Control Document (ICD) to source code implementation auto coder tool written in Python.
    • Led software best practices and DevOps effort among my peers in an inter-department coloration.
  • June 2023 - June 2024

    Wind River, Remote, CO

    Senior Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Engineering


    Develop Software, contribute to Open Source, and function as a technical leader.

    • Maintained the Wind River Cloud Platform using Python, FluxCD, Ansible, Puppet, and Kubernetes.
    • Contributed to the open source StarlingX project and Technical Steering Committee.
    • Provided technical leadership to product team leaders across all product domains.
  • January 2018 - May 2023

    Northrop Grumman, Colorado Springs, CO

    Sr. Principal Software Engineer


    Develop Software, and coach teams to adopt DevSecOps practices at an enterprise scale.

    • Designed and built a full stack web application experience using Microservice architecture, Docker, Docker Swarm, MySQL, MongoDB, and Python for purpose of automating large scale simulations on a High-Performance Cluster using Slurm.
    • Developed a dynamic IQ radar simulation framework, built radar-related models in python and C/C++, and built a data-type agnostic data logger in C/C/++.
    • Coached dozens of disparate teams to adopt DevOps tools and practices and brought an estimated value of $15 Million cost savings to the enterprise.
    • Led a team of twenty-five engineers to develop a C/C++ radar simulation digital twin as an Integrated Product Team Lead.
  • April 2013 - January 2018

    Unisys, Hampton, VA (NASA Langley Research Center)

    Software Engineer


    Develop Simulation Software & Lead a Modeling & Simulation Team of twenty-five.

    • Organized with researchers at NASA Langley Researcher Center in the Simulation Development and Analysis Branch to build flight simulation scenarios for dozens of experiments.
    • Gained experience with real-time embedded systems, simulation frameworks, software development practices, hardware interfaces, and object-oriented design in C/C++.
    • Led a team of six as Scrum Master using the AGILE Scrum software development process.
  • May 2012 - December 2012

    NASA, Hampton, VA (NASA Langley Research Center)

    Software Engineer


    Team research project

    • Invented a method for simulating ADS-B traffic with a satellite internet backbone and developed a proof of concept using C/C++.
  • May 2010 - January 2012

    Infralogix, Williamsburg, VA

    Project Manager / IT

    Software Engineer Internship
    Non-destructive Evaluation and Testing

    • Organized the IT infrastructure for a company of 20-30 people.
    • Projected and tracked earned value for all company projects.

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Projects

  • AI/ML - PyTorch

    DeepNado

    Open Source Deep Learning for Identifying Tornadoes via radar imagery.
    For fun, I am working with a friend to use old GPU equipment around my home to use an open source dataset and teach myself how to do some basic supervised learning using Python PyTorch.
    https://github.com/deepnado

  • Python, AWS, Open Source

    Agents of the System

    Open Source Web Application Deployed via AWS.
    I built a web application using Python Flask to enable friend groups to collaboratively administer Dedicated Video Game Servers.
    agentsofthesystem.com

  • Cloud

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Certifications

  • CompTIA Security+ Certified CE

    Earned: October 2022

    I earned a Security+ because I wanted to get a better understanding of what the "Sec" in DevSecOps meant, and a basic what security professionals do on a daily basis.

    Here is my Security+ badge

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

    Earned: September 2022

    I earned a CKA because I wanted to get more familiar with Kubernetes and its inner workings.

    Here is my CKA badge

  • FAA - Private Pilot - Instrument Airplane

    Earned: Jan 2011

    I am a trained private pilot, and while not entirely relevant to a software background sharing it here shows that when I dedicate myself to something, it becomes a reality. I am very proud of my wings and always enjoy talking about aviation.

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Contact

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