Justin Hill
Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Security at Shopify
Poulsbo, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJustin Hill is a Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building developer platforms and modernizing large-scale Java ecosystems at Amazon and AWS. He led the Java development experience for Amazon from 2020–2023, bringing decades-old build systems under control for ~80k builders and ~570k projects so reliably he could take time off without being paged. His work spans access control, platform and productivity engineering, distributed systems, and identity SDKs, with tactical contributions across Rust, Go, Zig, and Python. Justin advises and contributes to developer tooling like mise-en-place and maintains a long-running personal tinkering practice, producing programming languages, web games, and design work on so.dang.cool. He combines a pragmatic, ops-minded approach to large org problems with a philologist’s appreciation for plain text, pipes, and concatenative programming. Based in Poulsbo, WA, he brings a rare blend of scale-focused infrastructure experience and creative side projects that surface novel solutions to entrenched engineering challenges.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (200)
http-client10
automation10
bundler10
transpiler10
jsx10
entitlements10
groovy10
http-server10
nixpkgs10
nodejs10
package-manager10
asdf10
fine-grained-authorization10
python10
nix10
Programming languages (54)
Github contributions (5)
booniepepper/rail
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:48 releases, 271 commits, 248 pushes in 1 year 2 months
so-dang-cool/fib
Sep 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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