Joshua Gay
Sr. Manager SA Open Source Community And Infrastructure at IEEE
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Gay is a seasoned open source community leader and architect with over 20 years in the non-profit and standards sectors and 12 years of focused experience managing open source programs. As Sr. Manager for Open Source Community and Infrastructure at IEEE, he designs governance, compliance, and DevOps practices that scale volunteer-driven projects and institutional programs. His background at the Free Software Foundation and Tor Project gives him deep expertise in licensing, compliance, and privacy-respecting software campaigns, paired with hands-on program development and volunteer coordination. Joshua blends technical fluency with business development and grant-writing experience, enabling collaborations between legal, engineering, and community stakeholders. Based in Boulder, he brings a rare mix of research-rooted analytical rigor—stemming from early work in machine learning and robotics—and pragmatic infrastructure leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex policy and legal constraints into practical, community-friendly processes that keep projects both open and sustainable.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
localization8
internationalization8
translation7
kallithea7
django7
gettext7
e-mail6
version-control6
mime-types6
php6
python6
drm6
mysql6
decision-making5
crowdsourcing5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
joshuagay/gitorious
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes in 1 day
joshuagay/linking-tutorial
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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