Justin Hendrick is a software engineer with 12 years of experience who blends production-grade tooling expertise from Facebook with aerospace systems work at Blue Origin. A Cornell CS graduate who earned a master's in Aerospace Engineering while at Facebook, he built and optimized compiler and Android build tooling such as Redex and contributed D8 integration work to the widely used Buck build system. He focuses on performance-sensitive, low-level tooling and build pipelines that scale across large codebases, and brings a research-minded approach from prior compiler and computational genetics projects. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on engineering with domain knowledge in aerospace, making him adept at translating complex requirements into reliable, efficient software. An ability to pursue rigorous graduate study while shipping impactful engineering at scale hints at strong discipline and cross-disciplinary curiosity.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at University of Washington
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Cornell University
A fast build system that encourages the creation of small, reusable modules over a variety of platforms and languages.
Role in this project:
Android Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Android build system, specifically focusing on integrating and optimizing the D8 dexer. Their commits address issues with resource handling when using D8, change the default dexer to D8, and refine the build process to leverage D8 for efficient dexing. They also introduced changes related to merging dex files and enabling predexing for instrumentation APKs.
Contributions:123 commits, 1 PR, 117 pushes in 5 months
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