Josh Boyer
Distinguished Engineer at Fedora Project
Belding, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Boyer is a Distinguished Engineer with 26 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel and distribution development, release engineering, and POWER/ppc64 platforms. Based in Michigan, he has spent the bulk of his career at Red Hat advising senior engineering and product leadership and shaping RHEL core platforms. His background spans hands-on kernel hacking, cross-toolchain and embedded ppc work, and leading Fedora kernel efforts—bridging deep technical craftsmanship with product-focused architecture. He also served nearly a decade at IBM and continues to contribute to the Fedora Project, reflecting a long-term commitment to open source ecosystems. Known for translating low-level system expertise into strategic platform decisions, he brings rare domain knowledge around ppc64 toolchains and release engineering to large-scale enterprise Linux.
26 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (156)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jwboyer/linux-firmware
Sep 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 6 tags in 4 years 6 months
jwboyer/feedback-pipeline-config
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Configuration files for Feedback Pipeline
Contributions:20 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
configuration-filesfeedbackpipeline
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