Joe Talbott
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
South Boston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Talbott is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a self-taught foundation in systems-level engineering, currently contributing to Red Hat after prior roles at Broadcom and Canonical. He focuses on clean, efficient design and low-level software—especially C/C++, x86 architecture, Unix administration, and operating system work—while also shipping production infrastructure for Linux releases. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has improved the Snapcraft build and parser internals, adding features that make packaging and distribution more robust for Linux and IoT. Based in South Boston, Virginia, Joe pairs deep technical curiosity with a history of building release and testing tooling, reflecting both hands-on development and pragmatic operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Computer Science, AS, Computer Science at Piedmont Virginia Community CollegeUniversity of Virginia
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Github Skills (14)
snapcraft10
python10
build-automation10
yaml10
devops9
github-ci8
package-management8
githubaction-workflow8
testing7
pip6
distutils6
django-tables26
setuptools6
django6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapcraft
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Package, distribute, and update any app for Linux and IoT.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 commits, 74 PRs, 335 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on enhancing the build process and improving the codebase of the `snapcraft` project. They added a 'make_parameters' option to the make plugin, enabling the passing of parameters to make-based projects. Additional contributions involved integrating "maintainer" and "description" fields into the parser output and supporting wiki code tags. Moreover, the user introduced features like handling carriage returns and removing parts namespacing.
linuxsnaps
josepht/pricer
Nov 2020 - Apr 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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