Joseph Flinn
Senior DevOps Engineer at Skylight
Spokane, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoseph Flinn is a Principal Consultant in Spokane who leverages systems thinking, curiosity, and psychological safety to help teams improve software engineering operations across the SDLC, with five years of professional experience. He led Foundations and Build/Release teams at Bitwarden, collaborating with engineering leadership to cut release cycle time by over 50% to two weeks. A hands-on DevOps and security engineer, he has contributed to Bitwarden server and client repos (nginx CSP, Kubernetes proxy builds, and integrating azuresigntool with Electron Builder) and to the popular tmuxp project (CLI UX, plugin system, debug-info). He has built self-service developer tooling for Nike and custom FaaS and CI/CD solutions, combining Terraform/Puppet/Ansible with pragmatic scripting to measurably boost developer productivity. Known for balancing short- and long-term goals, he turns complex operational challenges into sustainable, auditable workflows while fostering inclusive, high-performing teams.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Management, Master of Engineering Management at Gonzaga School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Github Skills (49)
dockerce10
docker10
electron10
python10
configuration-management10
bash10
asp-net-core10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
ci-cd10
yaml10
azure10
tmux10
cli10
onclick9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/clients
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:173 reviews, 703 commits, 150 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on integrating and configuring Azure signing tools within the Bitwarden client build process. They implemented a custom signing script using `azuresigntool` and integrated it with the Electron Builder. The user addressed environment variable access, conditional signing based on the build target (.exe files), and debugging signing issues, contributing to securing the application's distribution process. The user also made adjustments to the CI/CD and build configurations.
web-browserclisafarifirefoxbrowser
bitwarden/server
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 122 commits, 183 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily focused on improving the deployment and build processes of the Bitwarden server. They configured the nginx content security policy and added version numbers to the output. The user also modified the build and run scripts, updating the docker image configurations and addressing potential issues with the self-host setup. Furthermore, they added Kubernetes proxy builds and events processor container images.
database-apisql-serverdockersignalrdatabase
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