Justin Crites
VP Engineering at Strangeworks
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Crites is a seasoned software engineer and VP of Engineering with 12 years of experience building infrastructure and APIs for startups and financial services firms. He has led engineering at Strangeworks since 2018 and previously helped scale Honest Dollar through its acquisition by Goldman Sachs, bringing hands-on experience in microservices and production infrastructure. His background spans founding a fintech startup (GuavaText), consulting across C# and JavaScript projects, and operating in both startup and Wall Street environments, giving him a rare blend of product intuition and enterprise rigor. Justin also mentors university entrepreneurship programs, translating practical startup workflows into repeatable learning experiences. Based in New York, he pairs a Mechanical Engineering foundation with a psychology BA, reflecting a systems-oriented technical mindset tempered by attention to human factors.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Psychology, Bachelors of Science, Psychology at The University of Texas at AustinMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas-Pan AmericanHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Science Academy of South Texas
English, golang, ruby, c#
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
plaid10
ruby8
categorization6
fido-u2f4
nodejs4
api3
azerothcore3
specification3
server-side3
fido3
dm2
ntlm2
modulation2
simulator2
polyphonic2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
strangeworks/hello
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 1 branch in 6 months
j4ustin/go-plaid
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 day
golanggolang-libplaid
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