Joshua Tilley
Technical Portfolio

Quality and Inspection. Digital Publishing. AI Agent Workflows. Self-Hosted Infrastructure. Aerial Photography.

I create practical solutions across quality systems. I write, design, and host a network of interactive websites, direct AI agents daily to build and maintain real running systems, and provide a drone photography service.

This site — and every project featured below — is designed, created, and hosted by me.

Quality Engineering

Process-minded work with attention to accuracy, traceability, and improvement.

  • Quality documentation and controlled records
  • Root cause analysis and corrective action support
  • Nonconformance tracking and disposition awareness
  • Process improvement and repeatable workflows
  • Cross-functional communication with production teams
RCA CAPA NCR Process Control

Microsoft Expertise

Business tool fluency for tracking, reporting, documentation, and team coordination.

  • Excel formulas, tables, cleanup, and analysis
  • Word documentation and professional formatting
  • PowerPoint summaries for technical communication
  • Teams and SharePoint collaboration workflows
  • Data organization for repeatable reporting
Excel SharePoint Teams Reporting

Content Creation & Publishing

Original writing, page design, and editorial systems for a growing network of self-hosted publications, led by The Southern Colorado Obscura.

  • Writes and edits long-form articles, serialized features, and themed sections
  • Designs newspaper-style layouts with consistent typography and hierarchy
  • Runs automated pipelines that publish fresh content on a daily schedule
  • Builds interactive reader features: puzzles, collectibles, and member accounts
  • Prepares sites for monetization: metadata, ad readiness, privacy and terms pages
Writing Editorial Layout SEO

Web Design & Self-Hosting

Hands-on website design and development with direct ownership of hosting, servers, and uptime.

  • Designed and built this website and a network of companion publication sites
  • Hosts every site on personal servers behind a reverse proxy and secure tunnels
  • Builds login systems, member profiles, and database-backed site features
  • Works in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Node.js
  • Applies AI tools to speed up design and development workflows
HTML/CSS JavaScript Node.js Hosting

AI Agents & Automation

Daily hands-on work directing AI agents to plan, build, troubleshoot, and publish real work products.

  • Runs coding agents across an eight-machine lab with shared persistent memory
  • Built a retrieval-augmented AI character chatbot on a self-hosted language model
  • Uses AI-assisted pipelines to draft, review, and schedule site content
  • Breaks broad goals into structured, executable tasks and reviews all output
  • Applies AI-assisted troubleshooting to infrastructure and code problems
Agent Workflows RAG Local LLMs Automation

Systems & Infrastructure

Owns a small production environment end to end — servers, networking, monitoring, and recovery.

  • Administers Windows and Linux servers plus shared network storage
  • Watchdog scripts monitor services around the clock and restart them automatically
  • Scheduled tasks handle reports, backups, syncs, and daily publishing
  • SSH automation connects every machine in the lab for remote management
  • Publishes local services to the public internet safely through secure tunnels
Windows Linux PowerShell Networking

Inspection Background

Hands-on quality work grounded in inspection methods, quality philosophies, and production needs.

  • Quality inspection methods and inspection planning
  • Quality philosophies focused on prevention, verification, and continuous improvement
  • Defect identification and clear issue escalation
  • Measurement tool awareness and documentation
  • Standards-based review and acceptance criteria
  • Production floor communication and follow-through

Certifications

Formal training and certifications supporting aerospace quality, auditing, and safety compliance.

  • FAA ODA certification for Airworthiness Approval
  • AS9100 Auditor certification
  • HAZWOPER certification

Digital Aerial Photography

Experience capturing and organizing aerial imagery for documentation, visibility, and presentation — offered commercially through Eye in the Sky Colorado.

  • Digital aerial image capture and review
  • Photo organization and file management
  • Visual documentation for projects and locations
  • Image selection for clear communication
  • Technical comfort with camera, storage, and transfer workflows

Reporting and Data Views

Turning inspection and quality information into clear, useful views for decision-making.

  • Spreadsheet trackers for quality and production data
  • Clean status summaries for managers and teams
  • Trend visibility for recurring issues
  • Simple data views that reduce manual searching
  • Organized source data for future automation

Featured Work

Real, running projects — designed, written, coded, and hosted personally. Select a project to explore.

The Southern Colorado Obscura

A fully self-hosted, interactive digital publication styled as a vintage newspaper. Member accounts, a collectible inventory system, puzzles and hidden content, and automated pipelines that publish new material every day — all written, designed, coded, and hosted from a personal server.

Node.js SQLite OAuth Login Daily Automation
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Experience Snapshot

Where the strengths come together: quality discipline, creative output, and technical ownership.

Quality and Inspection Primary strength
  • Supports product quality through inspection discipline and accurate documentation.
  • Communicates findings clearly so teams can act quickly and confidently.
Content and Publishing Creative strength
  • Writes, designs, and publishes original content across a self-hosted network of sites.
  • Pairs editorial judgment with automation so publishing happens on schedule, every day.
AI Agents and Infrastructure Technical edge
  • Directs AI agents daily to build and maintain real, running systems — then verifies the results.
  • Owns the full stack from server hardware to public website.
Microsoft and Data Tools Technical advantage
  • Builds practical trackers, summaries, and organized records using Microsoft tools.
  • Improves visibility into quality work without overcomplicating the process.