Jeremy Justus
Lead Software Engineer at Optum
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeremy Justus is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing cloud-native, high-availability systems and API-first architectures from Greenville, SC. He specializes in microservices, API gateway technology, and secure, performant messaging—recently focusing on open-source HA/DR stacks with robust telemetry. At Optum and UnitedHealth Group he has driven middleware and API platform improvements, automating development workflows and optimizing enterprise REST transactions. An active back-end contributor to the widely used Kong API Gateway, he has fixed bugs, improved OAuth2 and logging plugins, and added configuration features to enhance stability and functionality. Known for practical, hands-on architecture, he combines operational rigor with a tinkerer’s curiosity that surfaces in continual open-source contributions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Clemson UniversityWade Hampton High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (11)
lua10
api-management10
api-gateway10
oauth10
reverse-proxy9
microservices-application9
microservices9
nginx8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
testing7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/kong
Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
🦍 The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 12 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeremy primarily contributed to the Kong API Gateway project by fixing bugs, optimizing performance, and adding new features to existing plugins. They addressed issues related to the OAuth2 and HTTP-log plugins, improving their reliability and stability. The user also introduced a configuration option to the ACL plugin, enhancing its functionality. Their work involved modifying Lua code, spec files, and schema definitions within the Kong framework.
api-gatewaynginxkong-pluginserverlessload-balancing
Optum/kong-cluster-drain
Aug 2018 - Aug 2021
Drain and divert your traffic without briging down the LTM and interrupting existing traffic by a switch that allows failing your healthcheck to a datacenter.
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 1 comment in 3 years
healthcheckdrainltmtrafficswitch
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