Joshua Byrd
Digital Developer at Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolJoshua Byrd is a versatile digital developer with 12 years of hands-on IT and web development experience, currently building interactive news stories and tools for ABC News from Queensland. He combines formal training in hardware, software and design with a long history of freelance work and systems administration in healthcare nonprofits, bringing pragmatic problem-solving and user-focused engineering to production projects. Comfortable across the full stack, Joshua pairs newsroom-grade code with creative storytelling—he also produces podcasts and helps run a band, Velociraptor, where he writes songs and plays guitar. That mix of technical depth, content experience and community-minded IT support makes him adept at turning complex requirements into engaging digital experiences.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Theatre, Music, Literature, Philosophy, BA, Theatre, Music, Literature, Philosophy at ACU NationalFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampMIT, Hardware, Software, Design, MIT, Hardware, Software, Design at Queensland University of Technology
English, 1337
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
google-analytics10
ui-components10
testing10
micro10
web-development10
jsx10
cname10
torrent10
browser10
rapier10
mobile-application10
html10
reactive-programming10
surveillance10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
phocks/gemini
Aug 2018 - May 2021
Grab another CoreMedia article to use dynamically in your story.
Contributions:1 PR, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
coremediagrab
abcnews/story-lab-standup-bot
Nov 2022 - Jul 2026
Contributions:10 PRs, 103 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
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