Justin Leitgeb
CTO And Co-Founder at Village of Pittsford
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Leitgeb is a seasoned engineering leader and co-founder who has spent 17 years building and scaling Stack Builders into an international software services firm with its largest office in Quito, Ecuador. As CTO he blends hands-on engineering, product-focused strategy, and operational oversight to help clients bring pragmatic, production-ready systems to market. His background spans backend performance work, large-scale system administration, and contributions to open-source projects like the Elm compiler where he improved documentation, build quality, and error messaging. A sociologist and Spanish literature graduate turned technologist, Justin is driven by the intersection of technology and economic development—motivated in part by a formative year volunteering and teaching in the Ecuadorian Andes. He pairs entrepreneurial grit with cross-cultural leadership, creating training and sustainable jobs while shipping reliable software at scale.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Spanish Literature, Master's Degree Spanish Literature at Buffalo State UniversityHigh School, High School at Victor High SchoolBachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Canisius University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
elm10
documentation10
code-formatting9
coding-style9
code-standards9
rspec6
minitest6
unit-testing6
activerecord6
factory-bot6
mocking6
ruby6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
elm/compiler
Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
Compiler for Elm, a functional language for reliable webapps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Elm compiler, focusing on improving documentation and code style within the project. They updated the documentation for several libraries including `Http`, `Automaton`, `Time`, `Text`, and `Random`, likely reflecting changes in the language or library APIs. Furthermore, the user addressed build configuration issues, improved error messages, and modified the code to adhere to code style suggestions, indicating their involvement in overall project quality and maintenance.
functional-languageelmreliablecompilerwebapps
stackbuilders/keyword-args
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 months
configurationconfiguration-filespacesconfigarguments
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