Joshua Ward
DevOps Architect at Leidos
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Ward is a DevOps Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience building developer-friendly platforms and modernizing legacy systems, currently based in Morgantown, WV. He has driven Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud migrations (AWS/GovCloud, GCP) across multiple roles at Leidos, progressing from full-stack developer to technical lead and solution architect. Joshua is particularly focused on developer experience—authoring a custom CLI and automated local environments that scaled adoption of an internal PaaS—and has delivered tooling, observability, and performance optimizations for distributed microservices. His background in electrical and computer engineering informs a pragmatic approach to systems and automation, and he brings experience with Kafka, NiFi, Prometheus/Grafana, Istio, and database platforms. Outside of work, he finds inspiration in music and coffee, a small but consistent driver behind his iterative, creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Systems and Software Engineering, M.S. Electrical Engineering with a focus on Computer Systems and Software Engineering at West Virginia UniversityHigh School, High School at James Monroe High School
English
Github Skills (51)
opentofu10
docker10
kubernetes-cli10
remote-development10
vscode10
golang10
k8s10
developer-tools10
grapher9
kubernetes9
terraform9
devops9
aws9
docker-container9
go9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
j2udev/dotfiles
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
This repository is home to my personal dotfiles.
Contributions:141 commits, 1 PR, 137 pushes in 2 years 9 months
dotfilespersonal-dotfileszsh
j2udev/kruise
Jun 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:8 reviews, 62 commits, 44 PRs in 1 year 2 months
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