Justin Hawkins
Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Riot Games
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Hawkins is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer with over 18 years of experience designing and scaling real-time, cloud-native systems and developer platforms. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Go, C++, Linux, Docker, and distributed service monitoring with leadership experience running global microservice infrastructure across 40+ data centers at Riot Games. As a former engineering manager and founder of a mobile/R&D studio, he balances people-first team growth with technical ownership of core libraries, alerting pipelines, and service discovery platforms. His background in avionics and financial exchange systems reflects a long track record of building mission-critical, high-throughput software. Justin holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University and often stays close to the code even in senior leadership roles. An under-the-radar strength is his habit of prototyping hardware and robotics projects, demonstrating continuous curiosity beyond pure software.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Washington University in St. LouisB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Truman State University
Github Skills (43)
monitoring10
parser10
observability10
dashboard10
visualization10
mysql10
grafana10
visualize10
analytics10
go10
prometheus10
business-intelligence10
composable10
elasticsearch10
data-visualization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RiotGames-Archive/grafana
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
The tool for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics & dashboards for Graphite, InfluxDB & Prometheus & More
Contributions:73 commits, 53 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 years 10 months
analyticsvictoriametricsdashboardsinfluxdbgrafana
beardface/LAMPS
Nov 2012 - Sep 2016
Contributions:97 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
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