Hey, I'm Josh.

• Day job

  Tech-lead engineering at a large org. Replacing legacy vendor systems and six-figure contracts with things we build ourselves, plus automating the data pipelines underneath.

• Flyte

  Co-founder and lead since 2020. Six years in. My career started with Minecraft plugins, and Flyte is what happened when I got to keep building around that instead of leaving it behind.

• Vespra

  A dev and design studio I'm just starting. The pull is getting to build other people's visions, not just my own – UI, brand, shipping the full thing.

• On the side

  Reverse-engineering tools, MCP experiments, whatever caught me that week. Side projects are where I actually get to be creative – no brief, no deadline, just whatever I feel like picking up when I have the time. Most of the writeups start here.

/ Journey

1. now

   Tech-lead × automation

   Everything so far, running in parallel. Biggest problem now is time – I keep picking up more things than I can actually finish, and should probably get better at managing that.

2. 2023

   Promoted to engineer

   Promoted out of the apprenticeship into a proper engineer role. Bigger scope and more responsibility, a stack of new tools to pick up, plus getting used to corporate culture and norms. Also when I started properly following LLMs and working out how to make them actually useful day-to-day.

3. 2022

   Minecraft internals & automation

   Started digging into Minecraft internals – partly for more in-depth plugins, partly just to see how it all actually worked. First proper interest in reverse engineering as its own thing, though I didn't really get stuck in until years later. Automation bug kicked off around here too – anything tedious started getting scripted.

4. 2021

   Apprentice engineer

   Started the day-job apprenticeship at sixteen, first proper engineering role. Completely different pace to Flyte – turns out writing a line of code inside a big org means asking four other teams first.

5. 2020

   Flyte

   Co-founded Flyte, aged fifteen, with friends I'd met through the Udemy course community. The course came first, the community formed around it, and Flyte was what we built together next. Still running six years on.

6. 2019

   Web + SaaS (TypeScript, Node)

   Dived in head first. TypeScript and Node, mostly just learning the basics and getting familiar. A few SaaS attempts alongside it, but nothing I made was anywhere near good enough to actually sell.

7. 2016

   Minecraft plugins (Java)

   First real code, aged eleven. Bukkit plugins, then Paper – Java-only for years before Kotlin eventually crept in. A few for other people, but mostly my own, plus the servers I was trying to run them on.

• 01 ~ / web Apps, SaaS, sites – design through deploy.
• 02 ~ / automation Scripts and pipelines that replace the tedious parts.
• 03 ~ / reverse engineering RE tools, protocol digs, enterprise security research.
• 04 ~ / ai Claude pipelines, MCP, agents – mostly powering the RE side.
• 05 ~ / infra Cloudflare, Docker, Linux – the metal under the apps.
• 06 ~ / sysadmin VPS wrangling, self-hosting, keeping old boxes alive.
• 07 ~ / game dev Where it started. Minecraft plugins, small engines, the occasional jam.
• 08 ~ / open source Tools and libraries others end up using.