Joshua Mckinstry
Validation Engineer
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Mckinstry is a Validation Engineer and software developer with nine years of experience specializing in mission-critical radar systems at Raytheon Technologies. He brings deep C++ expertise and a disciplined validation mindset, authoring Software Trouble Reports, executing Feature Qualification Testing, and maintaining requirements traceability in DOORS. Joshua has modernized legacy defense codebases, automated testing with Jenkins/Coverity and S3/PSTF scripts, and leverages MATLAB for data analysis and DARTS reductions to verify system compliance. A Computational Science graduate from MSU Denver, he pairs formal CS training with hands-on systems engineering across multiple platforms and versions. His background tutoring and frontline operations roles (delivery and shift management) contribute practical communication and process-improvement skills that help bridge engineering and operational teams. Based in Boston, he focuses on producing auditable, reliable software for safety- and mission-critical environments.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Electical Engineering, Electical Engineering at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science, Computational Science, Bachelor of Science, Computational Science at Metropolitan State University of DenverChaparral High School
Github Skills (6)
map-generator8
css3
react2
javascript2
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoshMcKinstry/WorldCraft
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Random map generator for fantasy worlds, senior project
Contributions:59 commits, 8 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 months
fantasy-worldsmap-generatorrandom-mapseniorsenior-project
JoshMcKinstry/Homework
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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