Joshua Roys
VP Of Engineering at GoExceed
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Roys is a hands-on VP of Engineering and cyber security architect with 18 years of experience delivering secure, reliable infrastructure and leading global engineering teams. He blends SRE discipline with deep security expertise—PKI, IAM/SAML2, SELinux, NIST RMF—and has driven SOC 2 Type 2 readiness, vulnerability management, and enterprise identity solutions at scale. A pragmatic technologist fluent in Linux, Kubernetes, virtualization, and multiple scripting languages, he also contributes to low-level open-source projects like flashrom and Lightspark, adding firmware board enablement and ECMA compliance fixes. Known for turning proofs-of-concept into production features, he pairs budget and vendor management with mentoring and process automation to reduce risk and operational cost. Based in Atlanta, he holds an MS in Information Security from Georgia Tech and a BS in Computer Science from Michigan State.
18 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Security, Master of Science - MS Information Security at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Michigan State University
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
firmware10
actionscript10
c1110
devtools10
c1710
system10
embedded10
engine10
xml-parsing9
bit8
updater8
assembler8
software-update8
text-manipulation8
data-manipulation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
flashrom/flashrom
Jul 2010 - Jun 2012
Send patches to https://review.coreboot.org: https://www.flashrom.org/Development_Guidelines#GitHub
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:22 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the `flashrom` project, a tool for flashing firmware on various devices. Their work involved adding support for new flash memory chips, including defining their characteristics and enabling the correct communication protocols. They also focused on board enablement, adding configurations and necessary GPIO manipulations to support different motherboards from various manufacturers. Further contributions involved fixing detection issues and optimizing existing code.
github-guidelinesfirmware-updatecorebootdevelopment-guidelinesreview
lightspark/lightspark
Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
An open source flash player implementation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the core implementation of the Flash player, as evidenced by the code changes focusing on handling undefined types and operand values. They implemented functionality such as `toLocaleLowerCase`, `toLocaleUpperCase` and constructors for Integer and UInteger types, as well as addressing issues with `Array::filter` and `Dictionary::nextValue`. The user's contributions also include fixing bugs related to anonymous function returns, and other fixes like the handling of leading '@' in XML properties, and URL encoding, alongside various ECMA spec conformance improvements for bitwise operations and Number::toInt, indicating a focus on the core functionality and standards compliance of the player.
opengl3androidflashvaapikotlin
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