Justin Ko
Director Of Software Engineering at Oracle
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Ko is a seasoned software engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling high-impact systems across Oracle and Amazon, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering. He has progressed through technical and managerial roles from embedded and core OS engineering at Apple to leading distribution-center tech and greenfield optimization projects at Amazon. Known for hiring and developing SDE1/SDE2 talent, he balances hands-on problem solving with strategic team growth and operational rigor. Justin brings deep expertise in systems, kernel-level thinking, and large-scale distributed systems informed by early core OS work and long tenure at major enterprise software organizations. Based in San Francisco, he excels at turning ambiguous, complex technical challenges into pragmatic, production-ready solutions with measurable business impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technical leader who still enjoys digging into low-level performance and optimization tradeoffs.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS computer science, BS computer science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhillips Academy
Chinese
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Github Skills (140)
luhn10
lambda10
serverless-functions10
swarm10
faas9
code-generator9
api9
pluggable9
padding9
livereload9
serverless9
logger9
docker9
aws9
logrus9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kojustin/rules_play_routes
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Bazel rules for compiling Play Framework routes files
Contributions:4 releases, 21 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
bazelplay-frameworkroutesrulescompiling
kojustin/fn
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 60 branches in 1 month
cloud-agnosticagnosticserverlessdockercloud
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