Josh Malone
Inventor Fellow at US Inventor
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Malone is an inventor, product developer, and engineering executive with 11+ years of entrepreneurial and hands-on product design experience, currently serving as Inventor Fellow at US Inventor and running Tinnus Enterprises. He led the end-to-end development, crowdfunding, and licensing of Bunch O Balloons—raising nearly $1M on Kickstarter and selling millions of units—demonstrating an ability to turn prototypes into high-volume consumer products. His background spans mechanical engineering, DFM, process engineering, and IP strategy, grounded in earlier semiconductor reliability and DLP process work at Texas Instruments where he published papers and patents. Josh combines ROI-driven management skills (forecasting, VC engagement, hiring, budgeting) with deep technical fluency in CAD, mechanisms, and manufacturing technologies. A tinkerer at heart, he’s also a Linux sysadmin and vintage computing/chiptune enthusiast, reflecting a lifelong curiosity about systems both physical and digital. He seeks roles as a product design consultant, engineering manager, or startup executive where pragmatic improvement and clever reuse of existing ideas drive innovation.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSME, Mechanical Engineering, BSME, Mechanical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (107)
javascript9
adam9
file-sharing9
countdown-timer9
countdown9
collaboration9
php9
nextcloud9
owncloud9
diaspora8
onlyoffice8
federated8
lti8
netapp8
docker8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
48kRAM/scripts
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 14 pushes in 7 months
autopkg/48kRAM-recipes
Jan 2015 - Aug 2022
autopkg recipes
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 26 PRs in 7 years 8 months
autopkg-recipesrecipesautopkg
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