Justinย Grimes
Vice President Of Software Engineering at OPENLANE
Zionsville, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Grimes is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building scalable products and growing high-performing teams, currently serving as VP of Software Engineering at OPENLANE. He combines hands-on architecture and coding with strategic planning, having driven major CI/CD overhauls, platform integrations, and multi-product stabilization efforts that enabled frequent zero-downtime deployments. Known for "bulldogging" tough problems, he authored the company-wide engineering career ladder and mentors engineers into leadership while still running architecture sessions and contributing code. His background spans full-stack delivery, DevOps, and data engineering across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and diverse language stacks, and he explores Rust and ML in his spare time through experimental GitHub projects. Based in Zionsville, Indiana, Justin pairs practical delivery focus with a knack for aligning technical roadmaps to business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at IUPUI
Github Skills (22)
git-workflow5
fluxcd4
docker3
aws3
buildpack3
kubernetes3
gitops3
amazon3
terraform2
terraform-provider2
paas2
buildkit2
amazon-ec22
rails1
ruby1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
indigobio/conveyor-captain
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
grimesjm/consul-aws
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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