Joshua Reichardt
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at Lytx, Inc.
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Reichardt is a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and scaling cloud platforms across regulated and high-growth environments. He has led large migrations and org-scale account consolidations, automated Terraform at scale, and designed HIPAA-compliant architectures and Backup-as-a-Service offerings that saved costs and reduced risk. A pragmatic automator, Joshua has contributed to high-profile open-source projects—helping modernize Jenkins Docker images and add multi-architecture CI for conda-forge—bringing cross-platform build expertise to production pipelines. He pairs deep operational discipline (incident response, observability adoption, documentation-driven culture) with developer-friendly self-service tooling to speed delivery. Based in Des Moines, he also writes extensively about practical ops and has published 200+ technical articles, signaling a knack for translating complex infrastructure into usable guidance. Colleagues rely on him for mentorship, clear RFC-led decision making, and steady delivery under compliance constraints.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts, Computer Science/PC Repair, Associate of Arts, Computer Science/PC Repair at Kirkwood Community CollegeBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at University of Iowa
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
conda-forge10
docker10
restructuredtext10
continuous-integration10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
ci-cd-pipeline10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
automations10
documentation10
qemu9
github-ci9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/docker
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Docker official jenkins repo
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 36 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on automating and improving the build and deployment processes for the Docker images within the repository. They created scripts to publish multi-architecture Docker images, updated QEMU versions for cross-platform builds, and configured the CI/CD pipeline to build and push experimental images. Furthermore, the user integrated the multi-architecture builds into the Jenkinsfile, ensuring the efficient creation and distribution of the Docker images across multiple platforms. Their work also involved configuration of environment variables and Docker hub integration.
jenkinsjenkins-pluginjenkins-api-plugindockerremoting
opsschool/curriculum
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
Ops School Curriculum
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the repository by updating the `soft_skills.rst` and `learning.rst` files, which appear to be part of the curriculum documentation. The commits focused on expanding content related to learning strategies, certification, and community resources for IT operations. They involved fixing formatting, typos, correcting errors, and adding new sections.
restructuredtextopscurriculumsphinx
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