About The Developer
Dubby is built by Josh Deeden, a software engineer based in Vancouver, WA.
Background
Section titled “Background”Josh has been shipping code professionally for over 20 years. By day, he works as a senior infrastructure engineer—building CI/CD pipelines, cloud architecture, and developer platforms at scale. He holds certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, and has worked across the full stack at companies ranging from startups to Microsoft.
That infrastructure background shapes a lot of how Dubby is built: containerized from day one, designed for self-hosting, with a focus on reliability and clean deployment workflows.
Why a media server?
Section titled “Why a media server?”Josh is a home theater and media server enthusiast. He’s run Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin over the years—and while each of them does a lot well, he always found that they either didn’t do quite what he wanted, or did way more than he wanted.
The idea of building his own media server had been in the back of his mind for a long time. Not as a business plan or a product roadmap, but as something that would be genuinely fun to build—a media server that worked and behaved in exactly the way he wanted it to.
Dubby started as that project. It’s grown since then, but that original motivation hasn’t changed. This is still, at its core, something built by someone who actually uses it every day.
Outside of code
Section titled “Outside of code”When he’s not writing software or tweaking his home theater setup, Josh spends his time cycling and community building.