Joshua Colvin

Joshua Colvin has over 20 years of professional work experience. Joshua began their career as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Northern Arizona University in 1993. In 1997, they worked as a Summer-Fall co-op in Architecture Validation for Itanium at Intel Corporation. In 1999, they worked as a Summer Intern, Systems Administrator at Industrial Light & Magic. Joshua then worked as a Senior Developer and Architect at Safeweb Inc. from 2000 to 2003. From 2003 to 2007, they worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Symantec. From 2007 to 2011, they worked as a Coordinator for TGen North's Center for Pathogenic Information, where they developed custom programs in Perl, C and Bash, and developed mathematical models, novel algorithms and software packages in C and Perl. From 2011 to 2020, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Ticketmaster, where they helped build Docker / Helm environment for automated testing and portable development of legacy services, created Wireshark plugin to parse and display custom Ticketmaster UDP protocols, created BDD tests against existing code, refactored legacy C++ code, provided training to new employees, increased reliability of seat availability caching server, implemented new functionality for consumer kiosks using mod_perl web service, and took ownership of continued development and optimization of multiple large C++ server programs. Currently, they are working as a Senior Software Engineer at Offchain Labs.

Joshua Colvin obtained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from Northern Arizona University between 1993 and 2000.