Justin Boswell
Technical Director at Secret Dimension
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJustin Boswell is a technical director and seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling backend systems and developer infrastructure from game studios to AWS. He has deep hands-on expertise in cross-platform C/C++ build and CI/CD engineering—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used awslabs/aws-c-common repository that improved MSVC, Android, and multi-target build reliability. At Secret Dimension he leads technical strategy while bringing principal-level experience from AWS and long tenures at Amazon, Autodesk, and Firaxis Games, bridging product needs with robust engineering practices. Colleagues rely on him for solving thorny portability and tooling problems, modernizing legacy codebases, and shipping production-grade pipelines. Based in California, he combines systems-level rigor with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset and a history of moving low-level infrastructure forward in high-impact projects.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (10)
c1710
cmake10
c1110
devops10
cicd10
android9
aws-sdk8
msvcrt7
build-automation7
c996
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-c-common
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Core c99 package for AWS SDK for C. Includes cross-platform primitives, configuration, data structures, and error handling.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:46 releases, 77 reviews, 14 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the build configuration and CI/CD pipeline of the AWS SDK for C repository. Their work included fixing MSVC configuration issues, adding build flags for various targets (like -FPIC for non-Windows platforms and downstream CI jobs for Android), and integrating Android CI support. They also updated the project to use more modern atomic value access macros. Their changes improved cross-platform compatibility and build processes.
c99aws-sdksdkerror-handlinghandling
awslabs/aws-crt-php
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
Contributions:62 reviews, 72 PRs, 322 pushes in 3 years 2 months
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