Justin Lai
Senior Software Engineer at Labcorp
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Lai is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms, currently supporting a multi-cluster Kubernetes platform at Labcorp following Invitae’s acquisition. He blends strong backend skills in C# and Java with hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform and CI/CD tooling to deliver reliable, secure microservice architectures. Justin has driven production-grade automation—adding cluster validation tests, KEDA autoscaling, and PodSecurityPolicy migrations—to reduce manual intervention and maintain uptime across seven production environments. As a former Consulting Reliability Engineer at Weaveworks, he architected end-to-end cluster lifecycles and taught Kubernetes publicly, showing both deep technical craft and an ability to evangelize complex concepts. Based in Chapel Hill, he brings a practical, security-minded approach to platform reliability and developer experience that often surfaces in repeatable, infrastructure-as-code solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (93)
java-client10
weave10
proxies9
security9
dockerfile9
microservices9
dsl9
java9
kubernetes-client9
mock-server9
oracle-database9
micrometer8
hystrix8
oracle-linux8
scale8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jwlai/helmfile
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
Declaratively deploy your Kubernetes manifests, Kustomize configs, and Charts as Helm releases. Generate all-in-one manifests for use with ArgoCD.
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ww-gitops/justinlai-ww-macbook
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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