Joshua Niehus
System Engineer at Apple
Tracy, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Niehus is a systems engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and build automation for hardware and software products, currently leading continuous integration efforts in Apple's Video Engineering group. He combines deep SQA and test-automation expertise—from Squish, Ranorex, and Jenkins to custom robotic stress tests—with a physics background and early materials-science R&D work that helps him bridge hardware, biotech, and pure software domains. Joshua has a track record of shipping internal tools and integrations (including CI-driven web apps and automated power/performance measurements) and of triaging complex cross-functional build issues at scale. He’s comfortable extending and patching tooling (open-source Jenkins plugin fixes, custom log parsers) and modernizing legacy test frameworks to improve reliability and developer velocity. Based in Tracy, CA, he’s known for quickly learning new technologies and turning multidisciplinary requirements into practical, automated solutions.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certifcate, Computer Programming, Certifcate, Computer Programming at UC Santa Cruz ExtensionBachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.8 at California State University-East Bay
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Github Skills (19)
qunit7
jenkins6
jenkins-plugin6
automation6
groovy6
testing6
javascript5
unit-testing4
python-requests3
tdd3
unit-testing-framework3
client-library2
postgresql2
python2
libpq2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jniehus/Squish-Report
Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:12 commits in 1 year
jniehus/Dlang-for-BBEditTextWrangler
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
Contributions:14 commits in 9 days
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