Summary
Justin Comins is a Lead Quality Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience building resilience into large-scale products across finance, observability, and cloud-native platforms. He’s led test and production-readiness efforts at Yahoo Finance, Splunk, Astronomer.io, and HPE, translating complex distributed-system behaviors into reliable, auditable test strategies. Known for bridging hands-on engineering with architectural thinking, he focuses on operationalizing quality early in the development lifecycle to reduce incidents in production. Comfortable in fast-moving teams, he brings practical expertise in test architecture, production readiness, and SRE-aligned practices that improve observability and deploy confidence. An emphasis on measurable outcomes and cross-functional collaboration helps him turn reliability goals into repeatable engineering processes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer