Joshua Batty
Senior Rust Developer at Fuel Labs
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolJoshua Batty is a Senior Rust Developer and team lead based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building compiler tooling, language servers, and real-time audiovisual systems. He co-founded the nannou creative coding framework and contributes full-stack examples that showcase generative design, UI, graphics, audio and lighting workflows. At Fuel Labs he leads tooling and LSP efforts for the Sway compiler, modernizing manifests and command-line parsing while also advancing language-server features. His background spans research and production work—writing low-latency Rust for volumetric capture, cross-platform audio I/O fixes in cpal, and immersive interactive installations for museums and brands. Trained as a musician and PhD researcher in audiovisual synthesis, he blends deep technical systems work with creative provenance, often surfacing elegant tools that enable artists and developers alike.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate 4, Audio Engineering and Sound Production, Certificate 4, Audio Engineering and Sound Production at JMC AcademyCertificate 4, Jazz/Jazz Studies, Certificate 4, Jazz/Jazz Studies at Edith Cowan UniversityThe University of MelbourneBachelor of Art (Honours), Interactive Installations, Honours, Bachelor of Art (Honours), Interactive Installations, Honours at RMIT University
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language-design10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
nannou-org/nannou
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
A Creative Coding Framework for Rust.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 129 commits, 85 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the nannou framework by adding new examples and enhancing existing ones, focusing on the UI and creative coding aspects of the library. Their work included updating the `simple_ui` example to allow for dynamic background color changes with a button widget, and introducing multiple examples related to the NoC (Nature of Code) and Generative Design areas. They also implemented new examples to demonstrate modules, text analysis and various other generative concepts.
rust
FuelLabs/sway
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
🌴 Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient smart contracts.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 1695 reviews, 109 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed to the development of the Sway language compiler, focusing on enhancements to the Forc manifest file format and the integration of the Clap V3 library. They implemented features allowing for an array of authors in the Forc.toml file, including a deprecation notice for the existing `author` field. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase to use the Clap V3 library, replacing the older StructOpt library and its related dependencies. They also contributed to the LSP server, implementing various features.
smart-contractsswaycompilerfuel
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