Justin Lowry
Unicorn at Defense Unicorns
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Lowry is a versatile principal software engineer with over 20 years of experience now focused on DevSecOps, GitLab-CI, Kubernetes and AWS for secure, cloud-native microservices. Currently a "Unicorn" at Defense Unicorns, he architects and maintains CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes platforms, and developer tooling while advising cyber teams on certificate-to-field issues and security findings. He has deep experience integrating services like Keycloak, Kafka and various databases into production-ready clusters and automating deployments with Kustomize and ArgoCD. Justin's background spans high-performance data integration and visualization, large-scale analytics, and embedded C/C++ systems, giving him a rare full-stack perspective from device-level code to enterprise cloud infrastructure. Based in North Myrtle Beach, he combines practical operational ownership with a research-rooted engineering mindset from an MS in Computer Engineering. An anchor pipeline engineer by trade, he’s known for turning complex security and deployment constraints into repeatable, team-friendly workflows.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (25)
k3s10
sbom10
docker-registry10
kind10
container-cop9
cosign9
docker9
helm9
k8s9
azure8
cloud-native8
gitops8
kustomize8
devsecops8
kubernetes8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
justin-lf/golang-tekton-hello-world
May 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 4 reviews, 93 PRs in 2 years 5 months
justin-lf/cloudbees-bb
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 70 pushes, 10 tags in 4 months
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