Summary
Justin Honold is a seasoned technology leader with 14 years of experience helping organizations modernize through cloud, automation, and DevOps practices across startups, academia, and enterprise. He has founded and led cloud operations and automation efforts at Monsanto, scaled consulting practices at Slalom and Ocelot (which he helped grow and sell to Accenture), and now advises clients at Object Computing. Justin blends hands-on platform engineering with business-facing delivery—hiring, sales alignment, architecture, and delivery oversight—to turn modernization strategies into operational reality. He is comfortable with both high-scale HPC/genomics infrastructure and lean startup stacks, having managed 600+ node clusters and terabytes of replicated data alike. Based in St. Louis, he brings a pragmatic, cross-functional approach that emphasizes learning, measurable impact, and sustainable systems. A recurring theme in his career is translating deep technical work into repeatable consulting capabilities that accelerate clients’ cloud and data journeys.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
English, French