Summary
Justin Arispe is a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across finance, defense, and cloud consulting. He has strong Python and Java roots, shipping services and integrations at scale using Flask, Spring Boot, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/GCP tooling. Justin has a track record of improving uptime and onboarding speed—codifying best practices as an early customer engineer at Synapse and serving on-call to diagnose outages with DataDog and CloudWatch. He brings embedded systems credibility from university research and Navy technical experience, giving him practical low-level troubleshooting chops uncommon in many backend engineers. Currently at Shutterfly after a cloud-focused stint at Avanade, he blends DevSecOps pipeline automation with hands-on API and integration work. Based in Phoenix, he combines mission-oriented discipline from military service with a pragmatic, customer-facing engineering approach.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Systems Engineering at Arizona State University
Associate’s Degree Computer Science, Associate’s Degree Computer Science at Mesa Community College
English