Justin Cunningham
Principal Engineer, Data Infrastructure
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Cunningham is a Principal Engineer specializing in data infrastructure with a 15-year track record of building and scaling data platforms at companies including Airbnb, Andreessen Horowitz, Atlassian, and Netflix. He combines deep engineering experience with entrepreneurial instincts, having founded multiple startups and run product-focused ventures since 1999. Justin has led cross-functional teams to design resilient data architectures and recommendation systems, marrying algorithmic rigor from roles at FutureAdvisor with platform-level strategy at large tech firms. Based in Redwood City, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and a strategic finance perspective from graduate study in management and finance. Notably, his career blends early-stage product creation—shipping PHP and Ruby on Rails platforms—with later-stage leadership of enterprise-grade data platforms, reflecting rare full-lifecycle experience. He is known for translating complex data requirements into pragmatic, operational systems that serve analytics and ML needs at scale.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at University of Maryland Global CampusMaster of Liberal Arts Management (Finance), Master of Liberal Arts Management (Finance) at Harvard University Extension School
ruby, python
Stackoverflow
7,436reputation
638kreached
22answers
21questions
Github Skills (50)
amazon-web-services9
mapreduce8
yelp8
mailchimp8
api-client8
ruby7
dockerfile7
apache-kafka7
activerecord6
rest-api6
ruby-on-rails6
cookie6
netbeans6
rest6
cucumber6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jcnnghm/tarsnap-cookbook
Nov 2012 - May 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
justincinmd/dotfiles
May 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:76 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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