Justin Baker
Chief Executive Officer at Centex Lab
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarJustin Baker is a seasoned Full-Stack Engineer and technology leader with 14 years of experience, now serving as CEO of Centex Lab in Fort Worth. He combines deep Rails and Elixir expertise with hands-on DevOps and automation work—having improved build and release processes for the well-known RubyInstaller project. Justin is a pragmatic architect who’s led microservice migrations, CI/CD and infrastructure automation, and has a track record of refactoring risky code and adding test coverage to enable faster, safer feature delivery. He naturally gravitates to mentorship and leadership, yet remains an eager learner who quickly becomes the team’s subject-matter expert on new technologies. His background spans system administration, messaging-driven asynchronous architectures, and building durable deployments across cloud and on-prem environments.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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windows
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activerecord
top-5%
ruby
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (26)
dependency-management10
ruby10
build-automation10
rake10
devops10
scripting9
github-ci9
windows9
ruby-on-rails9
githubaction-workflow9
shell9
activerecord9
script9
sh9
libffi7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oneclick/rubyinstaller
Apr 2012 - Jul 2017
RubyInstaller for Windows - Build recipes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:77 commits, 14 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on improving the build and release process for the RubyInstaller project. Their contributions involved modifying the build configuration files, particularly around the use of the DevKit and dependencies. The user automated various tasks such as adding and updating dependencies from OpenKnapsack and made modifications to the rake tasks, and scripts to enhance the build system. They also addressed issues and improved the overall reliability of the build process.
recipeswindowsrubyinstallerrubymruby
Azolo/websockex
Feb 2017 - Apr 2022
An Elixir Websocket Client
Contributions:7 releases, 8 reviews, 280 commits in 5 years 3 months
websocketelixirwebsocket-client
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