Summary
Justin Lok is a founder and full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-quality mobile and web products, including three niche apps with 500K+ users and consistently 4.8+ ratings. He combines product-minded engineering with operational rigor—achieving 99.8% crash-free users, cutting operating costs 40%, and migrating backends to scalable cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure. Justin has deep hands-on experience across the stack from animated UIs and custom CMSs to APIs, web scrapers that drive most revenue, and an on-device computer vision model that recognizes 20,000 Pokémon cards in real time. His background in business operations and ecommerce informs pragmatic product decisions and growth strategies, proven by an acquisition of his Popspedia app by Funko and its conversion into their official app. Based in Irvine, CA, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with attention to detail and a playful side—building “silly games and stuff” while shipping production-grade systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biological Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree, Biological Sciences at University of California, Irvine