Joshua Scarsbrook
Steering Committee Member at International Cybersecurity Challenge
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Scarsbrook is a research-focused cyber security engineer with 13 years of technical experience and seven years in formal research roles, currently a Research Officer at The University of Queensland and a steering committee member for the International Cyber Security Challenge. He builds practical, high-impact tools—from fast, low-requirement virtualization for high-school cyber training to container tooling for medical imaging—and has open-sourced work like TinyRange to speed reproducible builds. His background spans kernel-space drivers, high-performance analysis pipelines, web application analysis using type inference for JavaScript, and supply-chain simulation, reflecting a rare blend of systems, security and visualization expertise. Joshua also contributes full‑stack code to community projects (e.g., Minecraft modpack launcher work) and shapes scoring and rules for international CTF competitions, demonstrating both hands-on engineering and technical governance. He is particularly invested in cyber security education and reproducible tooling, aiming to make advanced security technology accessible and teachable across diverse environments.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (Honours), Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (Honours), Computer Science at The University of WaikatoSt Johns College Hamilton
Github Skills (8)
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minecraft-forge10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Slowpoke101/FTBLaunch
Sep 2012 - Jan 2013
Launcher for the FTB Mod Pack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:72 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Joshua contributed to the FTB Launcher for the FTB Mod Pack by implementing features related to launching isolated copies of Minecraft 1.3.2. They added and modified code related to storing and retrieving user passwords. The user also worked on integrating modpack downloading and installation, including a progress bar and a dialog for the process.
minecraftftbmodlauncherpack
Vbitz/MinecraftScript
Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:96 commits in 3 months
minecraftjavascriptsecretbear
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