• Master of Science

  Aerospace Engineering

  Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA

  Specialized in Flight Dynamics & Control Systems

  Thesis: Designed & Built and F-16 Flight Simulator

• Bachelor of Science

  Computer Engineering

  George Mason University, Fairfax VA

• Programming

  • C/C++, Python, Java, Matlab
  • Bash, Shell, Make, CMake, Bazel
  • Software Packaging: Conan, Pip
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Software Architecture

• DevOps

  • Ansible, Terraform
  • Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm
  • Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, FluxCD
  • Nexus Repository, Lifecycle
  • SonarQube, Selenium, Robot
  • Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Gitlab CI, Atlassian Jira & Bitbucket
  • GCP, AWS - EC2, ECS, RDS

• Hardware

  • Assembly, VHDL, FPGA
  • Embedded Systems
  • High Performance Computing (HPC), Slurm

• Operating Systems

  • Unix/Linux
  • Windows
  • RTOS

• Web

  • HTML/CSS/Bootstrap
  • JavaScript, jQuery, NodeJS
  • MySQL, CNPG, MongoDB, Redis
  • Python - Flask, Celery, Jinja2, Pandas, NumPy
  • ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ
  • Nginx

• Exposure

  • Rust
  • AI/ML - CNN

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Professional Experience

• July 2024 - October 2025

  Wisk Aero (A Boeing Company), Remote, CO

  Staff Software Engineer - Simulation Tools

  
  Building Tools for an entire company.
  

  • Architected and built a Hardware in the Loop Simulation Framework solution using Protobuf, Python, C/C++, and a Real Time Operating System Data Acquisition platform.
  • Developed an Interface Control Document (ICD) to source code implementation auto coder tool written in Python.
  • Led software best practices and DevOps effort among my peers in an inter-department coloration.

• June 2023 - June 2024

  Wind River, Remote, CO

  Senior Member of Technical Staff - Cloud Engineering

  
  Develop Software, contribute to Open Source, and function as a technical leader.
  

  • Maintained the Wind River Cloud Platform using Python, FluxCD, Ansible, Puppet, and Kubernetes.
  • Contributed to the open source StarlingX project and Technical Steering Committee.
  • Provided technical leadership to product team leaders across all product domains.

• January 2018 - May 2023

  Northrop Grumman, Colorado Springs, CO

  Sr. Principal Software Engineer

  
  Develop Software, and coach teams to adopt DevSecOps practices at an enterprise scale.
  

  • Designed and built a full stack web application experience using Microservice architecture, Docker, Docker Swarm, MySQL, MongoDB, and Python for purpose of automating large scale simulations on a High-Performance Cluster using Slurm.
  • Developed a dynamic IQ radar simulation framework, built radar-related models in python and C/C++, and built a data-type agnostic data logger in C/C/++.
  • Coached dozens of disparate teams to adopt DevOps tools and practices and brought an estimated value of $15 Million cost savings to the enterprise.
  • Led a team of twenty-five engineers to develop a C/C++ radar simulation digital twin as an Integrated Product Team Lead.

• April 2013 - January 2018

  Unisys, Hampton, VA (NASA Langley Research Center)

  Software Engineer

  
  Develop Simulation Software & Lead a Modeling & Simulation Team of twenty-five.
  

  • Organized with researchers at NASA Langley Researcher Center in the Simulation Development and Analysis Branch to build flight simulation scenarios for dozens of experiments.
  • Gained experience with real-time embedded systems, simulation frameworks, software development practices, hardware interfaces, and object-oriented design in C/C++.
  • Led a team of six as Scrum Master using the AGILE Scrum software development process.

• May 2012 - December 2012

  NASA, Hampton, VA (NASA Langley Research Center)

  Software Engineer

  
  Team research project
  

  • Invented a method for simulating ADS-B traffic with a satellite internet backbone and developed a proof of concept using C/C++.

• May 2010 - January 2012

  Infralogix, Williamsburg, VA

  Project Manager / IT

  Software Engineer Internship
  Non-destructive Evaluation and Testing
  

  • Organized the IT infrastructure for a company of 20-30 people.
  • Projected and tracked earned value for all company projects.

04

Projects

• AI/ML - PyTorch

  DeepNado

  Open Source Deep Learning for Identifying Tornadoes via radar imagery.
  For fun, I am working with a friend to use old GPU equipment around my home to use an open source dataset and teach myself how to do some basic supervised learning using Python PyTorch.
  https://github.com/deepnado

• Python, AWS, Open Source

  Agents of the System

  Open Source Web Application Deployed via AWS.
  I built a web application using Python Flask to enable friend groups to collaboratively administer Dedicated Video Game Servers.
  agentsofthesystem.com

• Cloud

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05

Certifications

• FAA - Private Pilot - Instrument Airplane

  Earned: Jan 2011

  I am a trained private pilot, and while not entirely relevant to a software background sharing it here shows that when I dedicate myself to something, it becomes a reality. I am very proud of my wings and always enjoy talking about aviation.

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Contact

Email

• joshua.k.reed[at]outlook.com

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