Joshua Akers
Associate Director Of DevOps
Christiansburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Akers is an experienced DevOps and HPC leader with 8+ years building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently directing platform and container services for Virginia Tech. He brings deep expertise in high performance computing, OpenStack, and security from roles at Virginia Tech and the Blue Brain Project at EPFL, where he managed hundreds of nodes and petabytes of storage using SRE practices. A hands-on technologist and founder of the Server Sidekick mobile app, Joshua blends systems architecture with software delivery and a practical focus on reducing toil through automation. He pairs technical leadership with a global outlook—having taught and supported underserved communities abroad—and holds an MIT from Virginia Tech and a CS degree with high honors.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information Technology, Information Technology, Master of Information Technology, Information Technology at Virginia TechRadford UniversityBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.79, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.79 at Eastern Mennonite University
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (53)
kubernetes-dashboard10
kubernetes-ui10
debugging9
extensible8
k8s8
jsch8
openssh8
barchart8
flutter-widget8
scatter-plot7
devops7
kubernetes7
dashboard7
datasets7
cloud-native7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jda258/flutter_ssh2
May 2021 - Dec 2021
SSH and SFTP client for Flutter
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 months
fluttersftpsshsftp-client
jda258/headlamp
Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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