Joshua Cowie-willox
Senior Software Engineer at Instant
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJoshua Cowie-willox is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with seven years of engineering experience and a strong full-stack focus on backend development and automation. He has commercial experience building and leading teams at PowerAPI and now drives engineering work at Instant, while maintaining several open-source projects used by thousands. Joshua’s practical strengths include performance optimization and refactoring—evident in his notable contributions to the winfetch PowerShell utility where he improved CIM queries, migrated configuration handling, and expanded system reporting. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he pairs hands-on coding with automation to streamline delivery and observability. He holds a Bachelor of Information Technology with a focus on cybersecurity and software technology from Macquarie University, and his portfolio of active demos is available at jcwillox.com. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who blends operational thinking with clean, maintainable code.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology, Cyber Security and Software Technology, 88.958, Bachelor of Information Technology, Cyber Security and Software Technology, 88.958 at Macquarie University
Github Skills (6)
windows10
powershell10
system-information10
command-line10
optimization9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lptstr/winfetch
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
🛠 A command-line system information utility written in PowerShell. Like Neofetch, but for Windows.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 31 reviews, 49 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Joshua significantly contributed to the `winfetch` project, a PowerShell system information utility. Their work focused on improving performance by optimizing the use of `Get-CimInstance`. Furthermore, the user refactored the code with improvements, including uniform capitalization, explicit `Write-Output` usage, and implementing the OTBS style. They also migrated to a new configuration method, added new features like motherboard, battery, and IP information, and improved the display of the output.
cygwincliwslwindowscmd
jcwillox/lovelace-canary
Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
🐤 Adds many useful extensions to lovelace, such as templating secondary info, stacking within a card and more!
Contributions:10 releases, 37 reviews, 46 commits in 2 years 9 months
secondarylovelacestackingtemplatinghacs
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