Josh Tracey
Lead Software Engineer at SkyLift
Harborough, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Tracey is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, safety-focused drone technology at SkyLift using Go, Rust, SolidJS and GCP. He brings a steady progression from freelance projects and junior roles to senior engineering positions, emphasizing efficient, impactful solutions that scale in production. Comfortable across backend systems and modern front-end stacks, he combines practical engineering with a focus on operational reliability for safety-critical domains. Based in Harborough, UK, he pairs formal IT and networking training with a computer science degree from QUT, giving him both systems-level and software design perspectives. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who prioritizes shipping measurable value while exploring lower-level languages to punch above his team's complexity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Information Technology, Computer Science at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Diploma of Information Technology, Networking, Diploma of Information Technology, Networking at TAFE Queensland Brisbane
Github Skills (45)
typescript8
electron7
pid-controller7
java7
database7
memory-safety7
rust7
oracle6
sql6
ai6
sqlite6
hexagonal-architecture6
expression-evaluator6
postgresql6
mysql6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
josh-tracey/convy
Jun 2024 - Mar 2026
Convy is a tool to enforce a consistent commit message format across a project.
Contributions:6 releases, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
conventional-commits
Adriftdev/gemini-client
Jan 2025 - Apr 2026
gemini_client_rs is a transport-focused Rust SDK for the Google Gemini API.
Contributions:8 releases, 8 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 3 months
geminirustgemini-apigrounding
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