Joshua Potvin — Rivard Engineering

A structural engineering graduate who also builds software.

I'm Joshua Potvin, a structural engineering graduate at Rivard Engineering with a parallel passion for IT, where I build web apps and self-hosted services under WSERVERS.

Joshua Potvin BASc in Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering Graduate · Rivard Engineering
At Rivard Engineering · since Dec 2024 yr
Joshua Potvin — Rivard Engineering

I build things that hold up.

Joshua Potvin — structural engineering graduate at Rivard Engineering, builder and IT tinkerer by habit.

WSERVERS — Personal IT Projects

From load paths to code paths.

The personal workshop of Joshua Potvin, structural engineering graduate — self-hosted services, web apps, and experiments.

Joshua Potvin BASc in Civil Engineering
Structural Engineering Graduate · Rivard Engineering
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About

New to the job, serious about the craft.

I'm Joshua Potvin, a structural engineering graduate and a recent addition to the team at Rivard Engineering. I'm early in my career and eager to learn. I am soaking up everything I can about how structures are built in practice in hopes to merge engineering design and practical constructability.

What I love most is making detailed design as effortless as possible to produce. I build clear, repeatable design documents that ask only for the inputs that actually matter. Finding a way to code engineering intuition to reduce the necessary inputs and provide faster designs. Strip out the noise, surface the essentials, and let engineering intuition do the rest.

WSERVERS is how I present those solutions. It's the home for my tools and documents I build to turn careful engineering into something clean, shareable, and easy for anyone to pick up and use.

Structural
Engineering graduate
IT & Web
WSERVERS projects
Design→Build
End to end
Featured Work

Engineering & IT projects

A mix of structural engineering work and the IT projects I build under WSERVERS.

Primary focus

Engineering expertise

Where my focus lives, structural design from first principles through to detailed drawings.

Structural analysis & design

Designing and analysing steel, concrete, and timber structures under gravity and lateral loads.

Steel designReinforced concreteTimber Lateral systemsConnectionsFoundations

Modeling & software

Building analytical models and production drawings with industry-standard tools.

S-FrameAutoCADExcel / VBA CFSQGISOffice SuiteCloudCompare
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Codes & standards

Designing to Canadian building codes and material standards.

NBCCCSA S16CSA A23.3 CSA O86CSA S157CSA S136 / CSSBIAISC Steel Design Guides

Engineering practice

The day-to-day craft of turning analysis into buildable, documented work.

Structural RepairInspectionsDrafting Technical ReportsDetailing
On the side

IT & web toolbox

The stack behind my WSERVERS projects.

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Software & Web

PythonHTML / CSS

Infrastructure

DockerSelf-hostingNetworkingCloudflare Windows ServerDell iDRACLSI RAID Cards
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