Justin Dirose
Director, Community Experience at Forge Community
Bemidji, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Dirose is a community-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience blending hands-on back-end engineering and strategic community programs. As Director of Community Experience at Forge Community and a former Technical Advocate and Growth & Marketing Manager at Discourse, he builds thriving remote-first workplaces where product, support, and marketing intersect. He contributed bug fixes and migration tooling to the widely used Discourse open-source forum, improving import paths and usability for real-world communities. Based in Bemidji, Minnesota, Justin leverages his full-stack background and content work at Effective to make remote work sustainable for small-town technologists and to scale community-centered operating models. He brings a practical mix of engineering chops, communications, and empathy that turns online interactions into company advantage.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Watertown High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Dakota State University
English
Github Skills (9)
ruby-rails10
rails10
postgresql10
ruby-on-rails10
forum10
ruby10
javascript9
ember8
performance-optimization7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Oct 2019 - May 2021
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 31 commits, 57 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily addressed bugs and implemented features related to the Discourse platform's back-end functionality. Their commits focused on fixing issues with user behavior, such as first post checks and email login, and optimizing existing features, including the addition of a copy button to code blocks. The user also made improvements to import scripts, notably for SMF2 and Drupal, and enhanced the category demotion feature. These contributions directly improve the forum's usability, migration processes, and overall functionality.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
discourse/discourse-knowledge-base-theme
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 review, 33 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
discourse-theme-component
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