Josh Wilsdon
Software Engineer at Joyent
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Wilsdon is a seasoned software engineer based in Vancouver with 15 years of experience building system-level infrastructure and tooling. Currently at Joyent, he brings deep expertise in low-level C and shell scripting, with a track record of improving disk management, build processes, and zone integration for SmartOS. His career includes senior engineering leadership as VP of Engineering and VP of Technical Development, demonstrating an ability to move between hands-on development and technical management. Josh combines practical production focus with open-source contributions to notable projects like smartos-live, showing a preference for robust, operations-oriented solutions. He holds degrees from Flathead Valley Community College and the University of Alberta, and is known for quietly driving infrastructure improvements that keep complex distributed systems reliable.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of AlbertaAssociate’s Degree, Associate’s Degree at Flathead Valley Community College
Github Skills (12)
c1710
disk-image10
sh10
script10
file-management10
disk10
shell10
c1110
scripting10
virtualization9
system-administration9
build-automation8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/smartos-live
Oct 2010 - Apr 2019
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Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:984 commits, 27 PRs, 203 pushes in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Josh's commits indicate a focus on system-level changes and enhancements within the SmartOS live image. They contributed to tools related to disk management, size calculations, and build processes, demonstrating skills in C and shell scripting. Furthermore, the commits involve additions to the LX zone, which suggest improvements to the system infrastructure.
smartos
TritonDataCenter/node-vmadm
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Node.js interface to the vmadm utility
Contributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 6 months
nodejs
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