Josh Lund
Greater Salt Lake City Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Lund is a seasoned sysadmin and backend/devops engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building secure, privacy-focused infrastructure and tooling. Based in the Greater Salt Lake City area, he blends systems programming, VPN and Tor bridge deployment expertise, and operational automation—contributions that include significant work on the well-known Streisand project to simplify secure server and VPN setup for activists and everyday users. A privacy activist and security enthusiast who also writes and occasionally cyclists, Josh pairs technical depth in networking and deployment with clear user-facing documentation and tooling. His background in English literature gives him a knack for communicating complex security concepts accessibly, making him effective at both building and explaining resilient privacy infrastructure.
16 years of coding experience
The University of Utah
Spanish, English
Github Skills (10)
socks10
shadow10
ansible-galaxy10
openvpn10
vpn10
devops10
tor10
ssh10
ansible10
wireguard4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
StreisandEffect/streisand
Mar 2014 - Oct 2018
Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:762 commits, 125 PRs, 314 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh contributed significantly to the Streisand project by implementing and configuring various VPN server setups, notably Shadowsocks, OpenVPN, and Tor bridges. They focused on creating initial configurations for these services and developing instructions to ease their deployment. The user also worked on the infrastructure, including modifying the rc.local and generating a DNS configuration for openvpn clients, and setting up a mirror for client files.
instructionsvpnactivistsbridgewireguard
jlund/ansible-go
Dec 2013 - May 2017
Ansible role that installs Go (http://golang.org/). The latest stable release that has been compiled for x86 64-bit Linux systems is installed by default, and different platforms and versions are supported by modifying the role variables.
Contributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 4 months
bitcompiledrolegolang-httpis-installed
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