Justin Herrick
Staff Partner Engineer at Netlify
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Herrick is a seasoned software leader and founder with 14 years of experience building developer-focused products and teams, currently serving as Staff Partner Engineer at Netlify after senior engineering and management roles at GitHub. He blends hands-on engineering—particularly in front-end development, TDD, and object-oriented design—with strong customer-facing skills and Agile delivery practices honed while founding and running startups like Lunar Collective. A proven coach and teacher (former Ruby on Rails lead instructor), he excels at translating complex technical needs into clear solutions and enabling partner ecosystems. Justin’s background as both a freelancer and project director gives him a pragmatic entrepreneurial perspective that informs platform integrations and developer experience work. He’s committed to collaborative craftsmanship—“write software, teach others, build together”—and often operates at the intersection of product, community, and engineering.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
General AA, General AA at 2008 Edison State CollegeAssociate of Arts, Economics, Business, Associate of Arts, Economics, Business at Edison State Community College
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Github Skills (65)
mvc10
ruby10
html10
rails10
elm9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
blackjack9
database-viewer7
elm-language7
counter7
viewer7
nitro6
multiplayer6
runner5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jah2488/alt-rails-arch
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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