Juna Ootoovak
Engineering Lead, Professional Services at NationBuilder
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJuna Ootoovak is a people-focused engineering lead with 16 years of hands-on software development and leadership experience, currently guiding Professional Services engineering at NationBuilder from Vancouver. She blends deep Ruby on Rails expertise and systems thinking with a track record of building cross-functional teams, competency frameworks, and scalable architectures for global, distributed organizations. Juna has moved fluidly between roles as a developer, technical coach, and director—helping startups scale, advising networks on tech strategy, and running developer induction and mentorship programs. She’s equally comfortable shipping code and designing hiring and professional development processes, and often approaches problems by mapping systemic constraints to individual strengths. Notably, she has experience running inner-source releases and maintaining multi-organization deployments, reflecting an emphasis on reliable operations and clear communication.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at University of ManitobaAlgonquin College
English, inuktitut
Stackoverflow
1,073reputation
96kreached
7answers
4questions
Github Skills (200)
site-generator10
rails-app10
rollbar10
javascript9
markdown9
uncaught-exceptions9
rust9
error-reporting9
stimulusjs9
ffi9
shapes9
stacktrace9
gossip9
append9
rack-middleware9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
the-open/outline
Jun 2021 - Sep 2022
The fastest wiki and knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, feature rich, and markdown compatible.
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
wiki-enginediscourseknowledgefeature-richwysiwyg
ootoovak/secure-scuttlebutt
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
securedatabasereplication
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