Joshua Gardner
Staff Software Engineer at Western Governors University
Brigham City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Gardner is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building resilient web backends and DevOps pipelines, specializing in Python, Django, Docker, and AWS. He has led backend and infrastructure efforts at startups and enterprises alike, most recently steering platform work at Journeyfront before joining Western Governors University. Comfortable across the stack, Joshua combines systems reliability engineering with pragmatic product-focused development to ship scalable services and CI/CD automation. He has a steady record of improving operational maturity—introducing containerization, GitHub Actions workflows, and MySQL-backed architectures—while mentoring teams on best practices. Based in Brigham City, Utah, he pairs hands-on coding with a long-term focus on reliability and developer experience, a perspective shaped by diverse roles from freelance frontend work to SRE-heavy positions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.06, Computer Science, 3.06 at Weber State UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Utah Valley University
Github Skills (76)
docker-build10
ubuntu9
authentication9
golang8
gis8
python-logging8
ffmpeg8
pulseaudio8
map-projections8
programming-language7
geojson7
docker-registry7
django7
elm7
emacs7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
unclesp1d3r/gopiano
Feb 2014 - Feb 2016
Pandora library in Golang (similar to Pianobar).
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 11 months
golang
cellofellow/ffmpeg
Sep 2013 - Mar 2017
Docker build file for an Ubuntu ffmpeg image.
Contributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 years 6 months
docker-buildffmpegubuntu
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