Joshua Deare
S-61 Captain at Helicopter Transport Services (Canada) Inc.
Vancouver, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Deare is a hybrid aviation and software engineering professional with 14 years of experience combining front-line helicopter operations and distributed systems design. As an FAA & TCCA commercial pilot and current S-61 Captain, he brings utility and firefighting experience alongside instructional credentials (CFI/II) and a history of developing training materials and automated operational risk-assessment systems. Parallel to his aviation career he’s a distributed systems engineer focused on consensus algorithms, distributed storage architectures, and Linux systems programming, with production experience building high-availability automation for database platforms. He has interviewed and mentored hundreds of software engineers, authored assessment content, and maintained a long-running freelance software practice—demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical training and tooling. Based in Vancouver, Washington, Joshua is comfortable operating in high-stakes, safety-critical environments and applying that rigor to resilient software design.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Oregon State University
Github Skills (77)
port-forwarding10
secrets10
vault10
database10
kubernetes10
key-value-store10
storage10
kafka10
distributed-systems10
etcd10
go10
raft10
distributed-database10
beacon10
consensus10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
doodles526/typedef
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Variable Literals Made Easy
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
variableliterals
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