Justin Alcon
Director Of Engineering at Esteé Lauder
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Alcon is a Director of Engineering with over 18 years in technology and 11 years in leadership, currently driving engineering strategy and delivery at Estée Lauder from New Orleans. He blends a language-agnostic, product-first approach with hands-on expertise in Elixir and Terraform to build resilient, user-centered systems across media, advertising, and e-commerce. Justin has a track record of scaling high-performing teams and owning roadmaps while balancing big-picture strategy with detail-oriented execution and SRE practices. His background spans premium media platforms and consumer revenue technology at Condé Nast, startup CTO roles, and engineering foundations at blip.tv, giving him a rare mix of enterprise and indie product experience. A skilled technical presenter and ethics-in-technology advocate, he frequently speaks on social media, web video, and responsible ad tech. He’s known for coaching engineers to level up while aligning technical choices tightly to business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of North Carolina WilmingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Tulane University
English, Spanish, creoles and pidgins, french-based
Github Skills (2)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
xanister/anslemgalaxy
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 27 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 months
justinalcon/anslemgalaxy
Feb 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 23 branches in 2 months
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