Build & Release · Platform · Consulting
I ship end to end at Opentrons: two robot operating systems, the full application suite, Opentrons AI, and auth across every web product. I also take consulting and staff-level engagements where the work is process repair, creative framing, and making AI part of daily engineering instead of a slide deck.
Recruiters often slot me into one of three buckets. In practice it is one job: I show up when something is broken between idea and production, and I stay until the fix is operational.
Long engagements where the deliverable is clarity: QA strategy, automation architecture, release practice, and the politics of getting teams to adopt it. I am comfortable in the architecture room and in the standup the same week.
I manage Opentrons Build & Release and still cut versions, tags, and deployments myself. I care about CI/CD, release cadence, and the details that keep robot software and cloud apps shipping on schedule.
Protocol Library, Opentrons Accounts, OAuth/OIDC design, pytest and API testing mentorship, Datadog and GitHub Actions in anger. I own cloud services and the test automation that protects them.
Lead Build & Release for two robot OSes and the full Opentrons application suite while still doing releases alongside the team. Drive delivery efficiency, test automation, and cross-team release coordination. Full-stack on Opentrons AI and Protocol Library; own authentication and authorization across web products.
Architect and operate core cloud infrastructure: Protocol Library, Opentrons Accounts, CI/CD on GitHub Actions and AWS, and monitoring with Datadog. Built release and testing frameworks that shortened robot software release cycles.
Practice architect for continuous testing. Led pytest automation for a gaming engine team of ten and browser-based UAT in Azure DevOps for energy-sector .com work with a team of five.
Lead SDET on a dedicated-device web portal across customer-facing apps, ETL, and APIs. Python, Java, TypeScript, Jenkins, OpenShift, Docker, GraphQL, Elasticsearch.
Hands-on QA strategy and automation consulting on long-term engagements. Built frameworks for web, API, ETL, mobile, and desktop; BDD/TDD with Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG; performance work with JMeter and LoadRunner.
Automation in C# and Selenium, QA leadership for enterprise web and ETL, retail operations leadership, and nonprofit web and AV implementation. Twenty-plus years from QA through delivery management.
Open-source tooling around Opentrons, release automation, and this site. Pulled from my public GitHub.
TypeScript client for the Opentrons Flex HTTP API
use uv to simulate Opentrons protocols
Github action to analyze Opentrons protocols
Documentation of protocol parameters in the Protocol Library
AWS Amplify Gen 2 Connected to OpenAI API Assitant
Josh McVey personal site (Astro + Cloudflare Pages)
I use AI tools every day in real development work, not as a demo. I write Cursor skills, project rules, and repeatable workflows so the tooling stays useful as models change.
That shows up in shipping: Opentrons AI features, robot interaction clients in TypeScript and Python, and the glue scripts that keep releases and tests honest. I treat AI as infrastructure for thinking and execution, then harden what works into something the team can run without me in the loop.
Open to consulting, staff-level platform/SDET, and Build & Release leadership conversations.