Summary
Justin Hoppensteadt is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with over two decades of Linux experience and 11 years focused on cloud-native and crypto infrastructure, currently driving MTS-level infrastructure at Reka AI. He has led DevOps and SRE efforts for high-throughput financial and trading platforms—supporting billion-dollar daily volumes and a front end that historically handled a large share of global derivatives traffic—using Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Docker, PostgreSQL and CI/CD. Justin combines hands-on production coding in Go, Python and JavaScript with GitOps, Ansible, and large-scale system migrations, having managed environments from thousands to tens of thousands of Linux systems across data centers and AWS. His background includes running full blockchain node fleets (Erigon and others), on-prem to cloud migrations, and building quantitative trading stacks, reflecting deep operational competence in both traditional finance and crypto. Based in the Chicago area, he pairs pragmatic automation and tooling with a curiosity for AI-assisted development and a long history of teaching and building internal platforms that reduce operational toil.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
DeVry University