Justen Walker
Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Plotly
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJusten Walker is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 13+ years building cloud-native infrastructure, developer tooling, and reliable backend systems, currently shaping platform engineering at Plotly. He blends deep systems and DevOps expertise—Terraform, Kubernetes controllers, Nomad/Docker integrations—and a strong penchant for Go, automation, and release engineering. His open-source contributions include pragmatic fixes and features to high-profile projects like HashiCorp Nomad and terminal tooling, reflecting hands-on work with container orchestration and cross-platform robustness. At prior roles he designed multi-tenant telemetry and cost-chargeback collectors, implemented Temporal-based workflow engines, and automated secure access patterns across AWS and Azure ecosystems. He reads RFCs for fun and has a knack for uneventful, production-grade automation that quietly prevents incidents. Based in Jersey City, he pairs broad architectural thinking with day-to-day coding and testing discipline.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology
Japanese
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Github Skills (30)
docker10
stylesheets10
testing10
configuration-management10
rspec10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
colors10
containerization10
dockers10
ruby10
go10
service-discovery10
ansi10
console9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
TritonDataCenter/containerpilot
Dec 2015 - Aug 2016
A service for autodiscovery and configuration of applications running in containers
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:156 commits, 30 PRs, 278 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Justen's contributions focused on enhancing the containerpilot service. They added features, such as overriding the interface for obtaining IP addresses, and refactored the code to use a list of interfaces, improving flexibility. The user also implemented service deregistration on SIGTERM, along with adding related hooks like PreStop and PostStop. These changes demonstrate the user's involvement in improving application configuration and lifecycle management.
auto-discoverycontainerpilotconsulorchestrationcontainers
puppetlabs/hiera
Oct 2012 - Mar 2013
Lightweight Pluggable Hierarchical Database
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Justen focused on implementing and enhancing features related to hierarchical data merging within the Hiera configuration system. They introduced a deep-merge functionality, adding options for different merge behaviors, and updating backends (YAML and JSON) to utilize this new functionality. The user also addressed a critical bug related to configuration loading, ensuring that tests and the core functionality behaved correctly when the configuration was not initialized as expected. Several commits were dedicated to testing and ensuring the merge logic, and related configuration settings, were functioning as designed.
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