Joshua Adkins
System Engineer - DevOps at M.C. Dean, Inc.
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Adkins is a DevOps-focused system engineer with 11 years of experience building secure software delivery pipelines, Linux infrastructure, and cloud-native systems from Oakland, CA. He blends hands-on infrastructure work with deep security expertise, having served as a malware reverse engineer and presented IoT security research at academic conferences. Joshua contributes to notable open-source projects like the Tock embedded OS, where he implemented power-monitoring support, I2C fixes, and async timeout primitives for microcontroller security. At Rhiza Research and nLine he has held principal and infrastructure roles, applying sensing and embedded systems knowledge to production environments. His background spans both applied research and operational engineering, enabling him to move vulnerabilities from discovery to hardened deployments. He pairs a BS in Computer Science and Cybersecurity with practical experience securing IoT and cloud systems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Cybersecurity, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Radford UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Computer Science at Virginia Western Community College
Github Skills (10)
i2c10
embedded10
rust10
microcontroller10
operating-system9
timer9
timers9
cortex-m8
arm8
iot7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tock/tock
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
A secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 11 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed to the development of a secure embedded operating system for microcontrollers. Their work included adding helper functions for a LTC294x, a power monitoring IC, and implementing a yield_for_with_timeout function for asynchronous operations. The user also addressed code style issues, renamed functions, enabled I2C, and fixed an overflow issue within the timer implementation. Furthermore, the user integrated a test application for the max17205 and addressed an I2C peripheral issue.
kernelcortex-mrisc-vsecurebare-metal
lab11/monoxalyze
Sep 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:152 commits, 125 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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