Joshua Wierenga
Technical Support Officer at UTAS Programming Club
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Top SchoolJoshua Wierenga is a technical support officer and systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Hobart, Tasmania. He specializes in high-performance computing, cross-platform tooling, and software architecture, with a practical emphasis on creating performant runtimes and development tooling. Early systems programming work includes building EfiSharp, a C# bare-metal runtime, and contributing to the Cosmopolitan Libc effort to run C/C++ apps across six OSes and two CPU architectures from a single binary. He combines academic training in mathematics and computer software engineering with hands-on low-level systems expertise, making him comfortable across both theoretical and practical domains. Active in the University of Tasmania’s Programming Club committee, he brings community-driven mentorship and operational support to student developers. Colleagues would note his appetite for ambitious portability challenges and a knack for turning runtime experiments into reusable tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Bacheor of Science Mathematics, Bacheor of Science Mathematics at University of Tasmania
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Github Skills (53)
efi10
libc10
freebsd10
windows10
bios10
linux10
polyglot10
zip10
openbsd10
darwin10
c-library10
netbsd10
csharp9
steam8
x86-648
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
UTAS-Programming-Club/testwebsite
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 154 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
UTAS-Programming-Club/UntitledTextAdventure
Apr 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:13 PRs, 267 pushes, 22 branches in 2 years 3 months
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