👋 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.