Summary
Justin Mahar is an Assistant Director of Software Development and full-stack engineer with 13+ years building accessibility-focused web applications using TypeScript, React, Gatsby, and cloud services. He co-created C-Print Desktop—the leading deaf captioning software used by 200+ organizations—and led the rapid design and deployment of TigerChat, a speech-to-text webapp serving over 20,000 users annually. Justin blends hands-on architecture with team leadership, having migrated repositories and workflows at scale, co-managed and mentored engineers, and delivered measurable productivity gains across captioning services. He has a track record of turning research-grade speech APIs into production systems that cut captionist workload by ~90% and improve accuracy beyond 98%. Based in Austin and grounded in a Software Engineering degree from RIT, he’s drawn to projects that solve big, human-centered problems at technical scale.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology