Justin Kestelyn
Head Of Product Growth & Positioning at Bugcrowd
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Kestelyn is a product and go-to-market leader with 11 years of experience shaping category strategy and growth for complex B2B platforms, currently leading Product Growth & Positioning at Bugcrowd in Seattle. He has a track record of creating new categories—crowdsourced security, distributed cloud data warehousing, and LLM design & analytics—by translating deep technical capabilities into clear market narratives that drive activation, engagement, and retention. His roles span product marketing, community-building, and developer relations across companies including Google, Yellowbrick Data, Cloudera, and Oracle, giving him rare cross-functional fluency between engineering audiences and commercial teams. Justin combines strategic rigor with hands-on execution: from incubator-stage products at Area 120 to scaling enterprise platforms, he focuses on measurable growth levers and product-led adoption. He studied at UC Berkeley and continued entrepreneurship coursework at Stanford, signaling a commitment to both technical breadth and business craft. An organizer-turned-executive, he brings community sensibility to product positioning—making technical ecosystems feel accessible and strategically defensible.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of California, BerkeleyCoursework focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation, Coursework focusing on entrepreneurship and innovation at Stanford Continuing Studies
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Github Skills (20)
hadoop9
emr7
rest7
rest-api7
parquet6
cloudera6
hive6
impala6
cloudera-manager6
hdfs6
livy6
scala6
hbase6
apache-spark6
avro6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
jkestelyn/jkestelyn.github.io
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
cloudera/livy
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Livy is an open source REST interface for interacting with Apache Spark from anywhere
Contributions:13 pushes, 2 branches in 28 days
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