Joe Stanley studied Electrical Engineering, receiving both his bachelor's and masters degrees in the field from the University of Idaho. With his focus in power system engineering, Joe began developing open-source tooling to support the various common electrical engineering formulas in a manner similar to NumPy. Following graduation, Joe continued to maintain these tools, and began developing others. Joe remains engaged with faculty and students at the University of Idaho, serving as an engineering Capstone Design sponsor, and sponsoring four Senior Design projects over the past three years. In an effort to better support students, Joe began self-hosting a variety of FOSS solutions to provide privacy-respecting alternatives that would allow greater data retention for student work through design-team transitions on multi-year projects.
Joe is actively engaged in his community, serving as the Idaho State 4-H Volunteer Association President, and leading at his county and district levels, providing educational workshops on everything from swine management, to radio/podcast production, to computer "anatomy." Joe's unique overlap in skills afford him the ability to serve under-connected communities in Idaho with some of the best FOSS solutions, providing similar experiences to the "big schools" without the need for exorbitant networking or cost.
Joe works professionally as an Automation Engineer, specializing in industrial networking, automation, and communications. He manages automated test infrastructure and CI/CD systems in addition to authoring industrial logic systems for utilities and developing static analysis tooling for industrial logic controllers.