Justin Dickow
VP Of Engineering at Autobooks
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Dickow is a product-focused engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling remote development teams, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Autobooks and co-founder/president of Oak Labs. He combines hands-on backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to in-vehicle software like SmartDeviceLink’s sdl_core—with a strategic product lens that surfaces customer-driven opportunities. Known for championing Shape Up and discovery-led development, he prioritizes outcomes, developer autonomy, and pragmatic engineering practices that accelerate delivery. Based in Detroit and trained as an engineer at the University of Michigan, he also writes about practical team and product patterns at Long Pressed, blending operational rigor with a founder’s appetite for experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
Engineering, Engineering at University of Michigan
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Github Skills (18)
automobile10
c-language10
smartdevicelink10
message-broker10
cprogramming-language10
ios9
connectivity9
cplus9
xcode9
cpp9
html6
swift6
macos6
multipeer-connectivity6
swiftui6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
smartdevicelink/sdl_core
Oct 2014 - Jul 2016
SmartDeviceLink In-Vehicle Software and Sample HMI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 86 commits, 26 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the `sdl_core` repository by implementing and modifying core message broker functionalities. The commits show changes to the `CMessageBroker.cpp` file, including modifications to message handling, and processing external and internal messages. Further contributions involve updates and fixes to various source code files related to the SmartDeviceLink in-vehicle software, focusing on functionality and version updates.
smartdevicelinksdlsdl-corevehiclec-plus-plus
zhanzhengxiang/smartdevicelink
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:35 commits in 9 days
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