Josh Hayes-sheen
Software Engineering Contractor at Everest Executive Assistance
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJosh Hayes-sheen is a seasoned software engineering contractor with 16 years of experience building everything from embedded microcontrollers and OS components to cloud-native, distributed systems. He has led squads and influenced architecture at companies like Varsity Tutors and Workiva, delivering features that improved operational efficiency and durable payment and storage systems. Comfortable coding in Go, Python, and Java, he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring, code review, and systems design to raise team delivery standards. Recently he’s been applying LLMs and traditional tooling to augment high-end professional services, blending practical ML orchestration with production-grade engineering. Based in Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, he brings a hacker’s curiosity and a track record of turning complex requirements into reliable, scalable solutions.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BCosc, Computer Science, BCosc, Computer Science at Algoma University
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Github Skills (55)
matchmaking9
discord-bot9
graphviz9
discord8
multiplayer7
historical7
reddit7
extensible7
kernel6
html6
game-development6
golang6
message-passing6
go6
firefox6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
grevian/openai-discord-bot
Feb 2023 - Jun 2026
A Discord Bot for fun gpt based bots
Contributions:4 reviews, 89 PRs, 145 pushes in 3 years 3 months
discorddiscord-botgptgpt3openai-api
grevian/graphviz-renderer-web
Apr 2020 - Apr 2024
A go/http based GraphViz rendering server replacing Google Image Charts functionality
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
gographvizimage-chartsrendering
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