Josh Roy
Founder at The Villars Institute
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Roy is a deep-tech founder and entrepreneur based in San Francisco who builds AI-driven infrastructure at the intersection of gene editing, biosecurity, and agriculture. As founder of GeneGuard AI he is developing a patent-pending platform that engineers insects—beginning with the whitefly—to prevent viral crop collapse, with dual-use applications in food security and national biosecurity. He combines 11 years of technical and product experience with hands-on open-source development (notably backend contributions to popular Minecraft ecosystems like Skript and EssentialsX), demonstrating pragmatic engineering chops alongside high-impact scientific collaboration. Josh has led cross-institutional research with Temple and Delaware State University, earned top innovation awards including Innovative Entrepreneur of the Year 2024, and was selected for elite fellowships such as the Villars Institute. Guided by a “Seva at Scale” ethos, he pairs IP strategy (four pending U.S. patents) with public-facing storytelling at major global forums to translate laboratory advances into deployable infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
A-LevelsHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at GCSEsInnovate & Activate (2023-2025 Batch), Gene Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Certified Focus (certified by Dr. Fausto Artico (ex-GSK) and Kabir Mathur (Leen), Innovate & Activate (2023-2025 Batch), Gene Editing, Artificial Intelligence, Certified Focus (certified by Dr. Fausto Artico (ex-GSK) and Kabir Mathur (Leen) at The Knowledge Society (TKS)
English, Bangla, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
plugin-development10
javas10
scripting-language10
minecraft-forge10
api10
bukkit10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
gradlew9
gradle9
version-control9
git9
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
EssentialsX/Essentials
May 2019 - Jan 2023
The modern Essentials suite for Spigot and Paper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 722 reviews, 454 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the EssentialsX plugin, which is designed for Spigot and Paper Minecraft servers. Their work included adding support for new Minecraft enchantments, updating the plugin to support newer Bukkit API versions (1.14.1, 1.14.2, 1.14.3, 1.14.4, and 1.15), and refactoring the economy system to support UUIDs and User objects. Furthermore, the user worked on bug fixes regarding item handling and made adjustments to the plugin's functionality, such as enhancing AFK status changes and mail features.
spigotessentialminecraftminecraft-serverminecraft-plugin
SkriptLang/Skript
Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
Skript is a Paper plugin which allows server admins to customize their server easily, but without the hassle of programming a plugin or asking/paying someone to program a plugin for them.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 40 commits, 23 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to enhancing the Skript plugin by adding functionality, improving syntax, and fixing existing issues. They introduced a new action bar feature and modified several core files, including those related to warning suppression, and script file management. Furthermore, they improved tablist modification expressions and corrected syntax and error handling.
paper-pluginjavabukkitspigotscripting-language
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