Justin Derby
Engineering Manager at Stripe
Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Derby is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, security-sensitive infrastructure across AWS and Stripe. He has led teams responsible for PCI-DSS compliant global data centers and now manages an internal Kubernetes-based compute platform focused on cost-efficiency, autoscaling, bin-packing, and observability. Previously a senior engineer and tech lead at AWS KMS and the Silk browser teams, he brings deep systems, cryptography-adjacent, and performance optimization know-how to platform engineering. Justin balances hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, prioritizing low-friction, highly reliable systems that enable other engineers to move fast. Based in Edmonds, Washington, he’s motivated by continuous learning and teaching, often tackling the intersection of security, reliability, and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science Software Engineering at Iowa State University
English
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Github Skills (100)
twitch10
htmx10
aws-s310
yed10
templating10
server-side-rendering10
language-server10
javascript9
amplify9
aws-amplify9
rest9
golang9
pouchdb9
cloud-services9
aws-apigateway9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JustDerb/yed-aws-palettes.old
Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
yED palettes imported from https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/icons/
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 2 years 1 month
amazonyedamazon-awsawsarchitecture
JustDerb/fitbit-groupsearch
Mar 2017 - Jan 2020
Group Search Website for FitBit
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
fitbit
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