Justin Ely
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Ely is a seasoned software engineer and engineering leader based in Minneapolis, blending a background in astrophysics with extensive experience delivering data-driven, scalable software systems. He currently serves as a Staff Software Engineer at Reddit and is an active Nature Investor with Planet Wild, supporting environmental projects through a global community. A Minnesota native, Justin earned BS degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Minnesota and an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, after early research calibrating Hubble data and exploring active galactic nuclei. Previously, he led platform engineering at greymatter.io, directing architecture, roadmaps, and customer-focused delivery, and he has hands-on experience building Go, Python, and Java microservices on Docker, Terraform, Salt, and AWS, with NLP-based data insights. His career spans Space Telescope Science Institute roles, greymatter.io leadership, and a stint at Decipher Technology Studios, reflecting a track record of translating scientific data pipelines into robust production platforms. Outside work, he enjoys reading and scuba diving in the Caribbean, Iceland, Mexico, Belize, and Minnesota, and he shares his life with his wife, a dog named Moby, and a tortoise named Bruce Willis.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Minnesota Twin CitiesMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
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Github Skills (152)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
justincely/cosmo
May 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
analyzingbackendcosmonitoringhst
justincely/lightcurve
Aug 2013 - Feb 2021
Turn time-tag spectral data into lightcurves
Contributions:1 release, 198 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 7 months
lightcurvesspectralspectral-data
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