# Joseph Abbott III

> jabbott.dev is the engineering log of Joseph Abbott III: Senior Field Engineer at Lockheed Martin, software engineer (B.S. Software Engineering, Western Governors University, 2026) and U.S. Marine Corps veteran. It holds release notes, project updates and open-source work on Go, Rust and Kotlin tools.

Key facts:

- Name: Joseph Abbott III
- Headline: Software Engineer · AWS Certified · Open Source Contributor · DevOps · AI Engineering · Experienced with government cybersecurity frameworks and policy.
- Current role: Senior Field Engineer, Lockheed Martin (Aug 2022 – Present, Luke AFB · On-site)
- Education: Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Software Engineering, Western Governors University (Feb 2024 – Oct 2026)
- Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner; CompTIA Project+; ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management; CompTIA Security+
- Security clearance: Active DoD Secret Clearance
- Location: Boise Metropolitan Area
- Profiles: GitHub https://github.com/jabbott-iii · LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephabbottiii/ · X https://x.com/jabbottiii

## Pages

- [Home](https://jabbott.dev/): introduction, links to the resume, engineering log and deployments, and every project with a short summary
- [Resume](https://jabbott.dev/resume/): experience, education, certifications, projects and skills
- [Engineering log](https://jabbott.dev/log/): every post, newest first, with project filters and search
- [Deployments](https://jabbott.dev/deployments/): live sites deployed from GitHub repositories

## Resume

Experience, newest first:

- Senior Field Engineer, Lockheed Martin (Full-time), Aug 2022 – Present, Luke AFB · On-site
- Senior Field Engineer, Delaware Resource Group (Full-time), Feb 2022 – Aug 2022, Luke AFB · On-site
- Tier 1 Agent, Leidos (Full-time), May 2021 – Feb 2022, Meridian, Idaho, United States · On-site
- Tier 1 Agent, Insight Global (Full-time), Apr 2020 – May 2021, Meridian, Idaho, United States · On-site
- Field Radio Operator, Sergeant / E5, United States Marine Corps (Contract), Jan 2015 – Jan 2020, Okinawa, Japan · On-site

## Projects

- [Denarii Dolor](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/DenariiDolor): Android personal finance app that keeps an encrypted (SQLCipher) ledger on the phone, with no account, ads, analytics or internet access. Language: Kotlin. Status: Active.
- [Nadir](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Nadir): Rust game engine and rendering framework with an ECS, cross-platform platform and FFI layers, asset pipelines and a deterministic runtime. Language: Rust. Status: In development.
- [Tidepool](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Tidepool): Zero-dependency IDE and code editor with a native GUI in the jabbott.dev style, a Vim-style terminal UI, first-class Rust and Markdown, Android and iOS builds, and pluggable AI agents. Language: Rust. Status: In development.
- [hardshellDB](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/hardshellDB): All-in-one SQL database built with no third-party crates, usable as an embedded library, an interactive shell or a PostgreSQL wire-protocol server, with serializable transactions in a single file. Language: Rust. Status: In development.
- [softshellDB](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/softshellDB): All-in-one embedded NoSQL database built with no third-party crates: key-value, documents, graph, time-series, full-text and vector search in one crash-safe transactional engine. Language: Rust. Status: In development.
- [Vagor](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Vagor): Vacation planning app for Android. Language: Kotlin. Status: In development.
- [Open Source](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/open-source-project-contributions): Merged pull requests to s3-orchestrator, AegisFlow and InfraCanvas. Language: Various. Status: Ongoing.

## Archived projects

No longer actively developed:

- [Munus](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Munus): Terminal-first task manager with a Bubble Tea TUI and Cobra CLI, SQLite storage, tags, relative deadlines and import/export. Language: Go.
- [Cryptare](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Cryptare): File encryption and compression TUI/CLI using AES-256-GCM and Argon2id, with a password-protected key store and signed releases. Language: Go.
- [Salus](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Salus): Environment health checker for disk, memory, CPU, Docker, Kubernetes, services, certificates and misconfigurations with PASS/WARN/FAIL reporting. Language: Go.
- [Capsus](https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Capsus): CLI toolbox that bundles every command-line tool I have built into one binary. Language: Go.

## Deployments

Sites built from these repositories and served live:

- [Nadir](https://jabbott.dev/Nadir/): Project documentation for Nadir, a high-performance Rust game engine and rendering framework. Source: https://github.com/jabbott-iii/Nadir

## Engineering log

Newest first:

- [Capsus v1.0.0 Release - Now Archived](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/11/01/capsus-v1.0.0-release.html) (2026-11-01, Capsus): Capsus v1.0.0 bundles the final releases of Munus, Cryptare and Salus into one binary for Linux, macOS and Windows. The repository is now archived and free to fork.
- [Munus, Cryptare and Salus Archived - New Projects in Development](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/11/01/archiving-munus-cryptare-salus.html) (2026-11-01, Munus): Munus, Cryptare and Salus are archived but stay public for anyone to use, fork and take over. Tidepool, hardshellDB and softshellDB are new Rust projects in development.
- [Salus v1.2.0 - Production Maintenance Phase](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/31/salus-v1.2.0-maintenance.html) (2026-10-31, Salus): Salus v1.2.0 enters production maintenance with 12 environment checks, five monitoring output formats, run history, cross-platform resource checks, 10 fixed security findings and signed multi-arch releases.
- [Cryptare v1.4.0 - Production Maintenance Phase](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/31/cryptare-v1.4.0-maintenance.html) (2026-10-31, Cryptare): Cryptare v1.4.0 enters production maintenance with a settled AES-256-GCM and Argon2id file format, stored-key encryption, 21 tracked security findings, signed multi-arch releases and an importable package for Capsus.
- [Denarii Dolor Privacy Policy](https://jabbott.dev/denarii-dolor/privacy-policy/) (2026-10-18, Denarii Dolor): Privacy policy for the Denarii Dolor Android app, which keeps your financial records encrypted on your phone and has no account, ads, analytics or internet access.
- [Contribution: s3-orchestrator #1682 - Nomad and Kubernetes Demo Services](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/15/s3-orchestrator-pr-1682.html) (2026-10-15, Open Source): Pull request #1682 to s3-orchestrator is merged: the Nomad and Kubernetes demos now run MinIO, PostgreSQL, Redis and the full observability stack inside the scheduler they demonstrate, instead of docker-compose.
- [Contribution: InfraCanvas #21 - Machines and Clusters Pages](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/06/infracanvas-pr-21.html) (2026-10-06, Open Source): Pull request #21 to InfraCanvas is merged: the open source dashboard gets Machines and Clusters pages with status cards, a capped sidebar, a sidebar overflow fix and a build with zero lint warnings.
- [Cryptare v1.3.2 Release](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/05/cryptare-v1.3.2-release.html) (2026-10-05, Cryptare): Cryptare v1.3.2 is out: stored keys can now encrypt files, each key keeps one password, and every release ships with signed build provenance and a container image on GitHub Packages.
- [Salus v1.1.0 Release](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/05/salus-v1.1.0-release.html) (2026-10-05, Salus): Salus v1.1.0 is out: a Go CLI that checks disk, memory, CPU, Docker, Kubernetes, services, certificates, and misconfigurations, then reports PASS/WARN/FAIL.
- [Munus v3.0.1 - Production Maintenance Phase](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/10/04/Munus-v3-Maintenance.html) (2026-10-04, Munus): Munus v3.0.1 enters production maintenance with task status and tags, relative deadlines, a per-user database, 19 closed security issues and fully automated releases.
- [Contribution: InfraCanvas #19 - Explicit Local Kubeconfig Discovery](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/09/22/infracanvas-pr-19.html) (2026-09-22, Open Source): Pull request #19 to InfraCanvas is merged: local kubeconfig auto-discovery is now reported in every snapshot, announced in the UI and can be turned off with a flag or environment variable.
- [Cryptare v1.0.0 Release!](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/09/15/cryptare-v1.0.0-release.html) (2026-09-15, Cryptare): Cryptare v1.0.0 is a Go TUI and CLI for AES-256-GCM file and directory encryption, gzip and tar.gz compression, and encrypted key management.
- [Contribution: InfraCanvas #12 - LXD/Incus Terminal and Actions](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/09/14/infracanvas-pr-12.html) (2026-09-14, Open Source): Pull request #12 to InfraCanvas is merged: LXD and Incus containers now get the same browser terminal and start, stop and restart actions as Docker containers and Kubernetes pods.
- [Contribution: AegisFlow #140](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/09/06/PR-140-AegisFlow.html) (2026-09-06, Open Source): My first open-source contribution, pull request #140 to AegisFlow, has been merged.
- [Munus v2.0 Demo](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/08/28/Munus-Demo.html) (2026-08-28, Munus): A short animated demo of Munus v2.0, the Go task manager for the terminal.
- [Munus v2.0 Release - Export/Import](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/08/24/Munus-v2.html) (2026-08-24, Munus): Munus v2.0 adds export and import to the TUI and moves every CLI command to the Cobra framework.
- [Munus v1.2 Major Update](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/08/01/Munus-v1-2.html) (2026-08-01, Munus): Munus v1.2 fixes the major bugs found after v1.0, including TUI crashes on submit and long titles, an off-screen delete menu and descriptions that did not expand.
- [Munus v1.0 Release](https://jabbott.dev/intro/2026/07/28/Munus-v1-0.html) (2026-07-28, Munus): Munus v1.0 is the first stable release of a Go task manager for the terminal, with a TUI, CLI commands and native binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows.

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