Justin Geibel
Principal Software Engineering Specialist at Burns Engineering, Inc.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Geibel is a Principal Software Engineering Specialist with 17 years of experience building and hardening complex systems across rail signaling and software engineering domains. Based in Pittsburgh, he has progressed from senior signal engineering at Hitachi Rail into principal engineering roles at Alstom, Formlogic, and Burns Engineering, bringing deep systems thinking and safety-conscious design to software architectures. He blends embedded and backend expertise—evident in open-source contributions that fixed asset dependencies and improved testability in the Community Engine project—favoring pragmatic refactors that reduce runtime errors and maintenance burden. Justin is skilled at translating rigorous engineering processes from safety-critical industries into reliable software delivery practices for commercial products. Colleagues rely on him to shepherd thorny integrations and to simplify legacy dependencies while keeping user-facing behavior intact. He holds a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and often applies that hardware-rooted perspective to software reliability and observability challenges.
17 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (12)
testing10
rspec10
ruby-rails10
debug10
rails10
test-unit10
ruby10
dependency-management9
file-organization8
css5
javascript5
html5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bborn/communityengine
May 2009 - Nov 2011
Adds basic social networking capabilities to your existing application, including users, blogs, photos, clippings, favorites, and more.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to fixing bugs and resolving 404 errors related to missing assets and dependencies within the Community Engine project. They updated CSS and JavaScript files to remove broken links and corrected file dependencies. Further contributions include refactoring and simplifying helper file requires, and also addressing date display issues within the forum's UI. They also improved test setup, ensuring the application loads correctly and the tests are able to run.
social-networknetworkingsocial-networkingcapabilitiesphotos
conduit-rust/rust-civet
Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
A Rust web server
Contributions:11 PRs, 19 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
rustrust-webweb-serverserver
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