👋 Hey, I am Joshua Strobl, an open source full-stack / software developer!

I have been contributing to open source since 2008 when I first installed Linux.

• Founded and lead Buddies Of Budgie, an organization centered around building the Budgie Desktop environment / platform used around the world by tens of thousands of Linux users. Jan. 2022-
• Creator and maintainer of Fedora Budgie Spin and Fedora Budgie Atomic.
• Solus from Mar. 2015 to Jan. 2022.

• Currently: Founder and Lead of the Buddies of Budgie open source organization, responsible for the development of the open source Budgie desktop environment.
• Currently: Support and develop Fedora Budgie Spin and Fedora Budgie Atomic, two spins / editions that ship with Budgie Desktop.
• Volunteered as Experience Lead of Solus, a Linux-based home computing operating system. I was responsible for development and support of Budgie desktop environment, maintenance of GNOME desktop environment, development of wide-range of software and libraries, community and project management.
• Improved first and third-party development of Canonical’s Ubuntu Juju cloud platform by improving important parts of documentation, including developer documentation.
• Expanded support for Microsoft’s Typescript by contributing files to help support the Facebook SDK and jQuery.

• Languages
  • C
  • C++
  • CSS3 / LESS / SASS / SCSS
  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • Golang
  • Node.JS
  • TypeScript
  • Vala
• Frameworks
  • Apollo
  • Gatsby
  • Material UI
  • Next.JS
  • Nexus
  • React, Redux, react-query
  • Qt
  • Tailwind CSS
  • tRPC
• Experienced with Contentful and Ghost as headless CMSes.
• Experienced with Kubernetes and multiple cloud providers.