Joshua G. Lock

About Me

I am a (part-time) PhD student at King’s College London, studying in the King’s Programming Education Technologies (K-PET) Group and King’s Computing Education Research Centre (CERC) where I am co-supervised by Professor Michael Kölling and Dr Neil Brown.

My broad research interests include; computing education, programming systems, human computer interaction and accessibility.

I have almost 20 years of industry experience as a software engineer working on open source projects, commercial products, and IT systems where I’ve contributed to and led projects to implement build systems, OS user experience, and data processing systems.

My open source work includes projects in the fields of build systems and software supply chain security, most notably as a founding contributor to the Yocto Project, as a maintainer on The Update Framework (TUF), and as a maintainer/steering committee member for the Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) project.