Justin Funston
Senior Research Scientist at ByteDance
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Funston is a Senior Research Scientist with a decade of deep systems and kernel expertise, currently working at ByteDance after principal engineering roles at RelationalAI and Futurewei. He specializes in operating systems, kernel programming, and multi-threaded performance profiling, with hands-on C experience hacking the Linux kernel for page-level memory replication, extending Solaris thread scheduling for power-awareness, and writing a driver for Intel PEBS. Justin blends rigorous academic training—a PhD-level background from UBC and Simon Fraser—with practical production engineering at AWS and large research internships, giving him a rare mix of research depth and shipping experience. Known for low-level performance optimizations, he brings an engineer’s curiosity to complex concurrency and platform problems and is based in Bellevue, Washington.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Gonzaga UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of British ColumbiaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (10)
storage4
database3
data-infrastructure3
scalable3
paxos3
sql3
singer3
postgresql3
dbms2
dagster2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jfunston/MultiCacheSim
Jul 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 1 month
jfunston/chogori-platform
Jul 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
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