Justin Abrahms
Principal Engineer at Parloa
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Abrahms is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience building reliable, maintainable systems and improving developer productivity across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in reducing operational cost and engineering effort through pragmatic platform work—examples include an internal K8s/GitOps platform (Trellis), a JWT auth service to ease decomposition, and a GraphQL gateway serving walmart.com traffic. Justin has a strong track record in developer experience: running org-wide DX surveys with near-total participation, dramatically improving pipeline and test stability, and cutting search latency and unnecessary queries under tight deadlines. He’s an active open-source contributor with back-end work on high-profile projects like Django and python.org and integrations in GitHub Services. Comfortable shipping in Python, Go, Java, and cloud-native tooling, he blends hands-on coding with systems design and org-level guidance. Though currently based in Berlin, he retains a maker’s mentality—building pragmatic platforms that teams actually choose to use.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Clover HighArt Institute of PittsburghBachelor's degree, Data Analysis, Bachelor's degree, Data Analysis at Eastern Oregon UniversityUniversity of South Carolina
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Github Skills (28)
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develop10
servicebus10
python10
django10
testing10
jobservice10
ruby10
service-layer10
manage10
api10
github-services10
management10
gatsbyjs10
web-framework10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
django/djangoproject.com
Aug 2010 - Mar 2012
Source code to djangoproject.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Django-based back-end of the djangoproject.com website. Their commits focused on code cleanup, URL management, and implementing features for community feed moderation, including admin actions and email notifications. They also made various template adjustments and fixed bugs within the aggregator and documentation sections of the site. The user’s work significantly improved the site's functionality and maintainability.
djangoxadminpythondjangoproject
python/pythondotorg
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Source code for python.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the python.org website. Their work included implementing image handling during PEP imports, creating tests for image generation, and modifying the generation of the PEP0 index. The user also added support for fetching multiple blogs and integrated Google site link search functionality. Additionally, they updated the site with new content types.
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