Justin Howard
Principal Software Architect at ParentSquare
Burbank, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Howard is a Principal Software Architect with 11 years of experience leading architecture, delivery, and cloud operations at fast-growing startups. Based in Burbank, he shapes technical direction at ParentSquare, migrating a Ruby on Rails monolith to resilient, auto-scaled AWS infrastructure while guiding a growing engineering team. He focuses on durable, well-tested designs—automating CI/CD and zero-downtime deployments and introducing observability via Datadog to diagnose and remove production bottlenecks. Justin sponsors and open-sourced Faulty, a concurrency-safe Ruby circuit-breaker library used to improve system stability, reflecting his pragmatic approach to reliability engineering. He combines hands-on coding with specification-driven design and a continual drive to make software that lasts. Outside work he contributes to open source and keeps sharpening infrastructure and architecture patterns.
11 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer and Information Science, B.S., Computer and Information Science at George Fox University
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Github Skills (120)
youtube-api10
ruby10
vim10
lua10
ruby-client10
fault-tolerance10
nvim10
youtube10
api10
text-editor10
rails10
pdf-files10
youtube-analytics10
extensibility10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
justinhoward/fzf-neoyank
Mar 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
nullscreen/epilog
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
A JSON logger with Rails support
Contributions:1 review, 89 commits, 39 PRs in 5 years 5 months
railsrubyloggerjson
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