Justin Boswell is a Technical Director based in California with 11 years of experience leading engineering teams and delivering reliable infrastructure across industries from game studios to Amazon Web Services. He brings hands‑on systems and DevOps expertise alongside leadership experience as a former Principal Engineer and Senior SDE at AWS/Amazon. An active open‑source contributor, Justin improved cross‑platform builds and CI for awslabs/aws-c-common—fixing MSVC configurations, adding Android CI, and modernizing atomic access—to strengthen the AWS SDK for C. His career spans real‑time online services, cloud SDKs, and build systems, giving him fluency across low‑level C tooling and large cloud deployments. He’s known for pragmatic, unblock‑oriented engineering: preferring to harden compilers and CI pipelines that let teams ship reliably.
Core c99 package for AWS SDK for C. Includes cross-platform primitives, configuration, data structures, and error handling.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:46 releases, 77 reviews, 14 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the build configuration and CI/CD pipeline of the AWS SDK for C repository. Their work included fixing MSVC configuration issues, adding build flags for various targets (like -FPIC for non-Windows platforms and downstream CI jobs for Android), and integrating Android CI support. They also updated the project to use more modern atomic value access macros. Their changes improved cross-platform compatibility and build processes.
Contributions:62 reviews, 72 PRs, 322 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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