Joshua Shireman
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Aptima
Winter Springs, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Shireman is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with 12 years of experience building practical, auditable distributed systems and leading teams at Aptima. He excels at designing maintainable solutions where diverse technologies intersect, emphasizing standards-first approaches and stakeholder validation to ensure features deliver competitive advantage. Joshua has a research-minded problem-solving style—demonstrated by winning three grants—and contributes to open-source testing infrastructure, notably improving QA and test automation for the Red programming language. Based in Winter Springs, FL, he combines hands-on engineering with a focus on simplicity and long-term maintainability, aiming to bring leading-edge, quality products from concept to production.
12 years of coding experience
University of KansasXinjiang Normal UniversityBachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts at Grinnell College
English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Latin, uyghur
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Github Skills (11)
testing10
red10
programming-language10
compiler7
compiler-compiler7
html6
curl6
parsing6
dsl6
scopes6
rebol6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
red/red
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Red is a next-generation programming language strongly inspired by Rebol, but with a broader field of usage thanks to its native-code compiler, from system programming to high-level scripting and cross-platform reactive GUI, while providing modern support for concurrency, all in a zero-install, zero-config, single ~1MB file!
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure for the Red programming language. Their contributions included adding tests for integer-related functions, modifying the test framework to support running tests with different modes (e.g., /SHOW, /WAIT) for the CALL command, and correcting existing tests. The user's work involved making changes to the quick-test framework to improve the reliability of the testing process.
zero-installcompilerprogramming-languagereactivescripting
kealist/red
Sep 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:65 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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