Justin Mccarthy
Co-Founder & CTO at strongDM
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJustin Mccarthy is a pragmatic technology founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building secure, sellable products from the ground up. As Co-Founder and CTO of strongDM in Redwood City, he combines hands-on backend engineering with product-driven leadership to simplify credential management, auditing, and data access across enterprises. He remains an active contributor to the company’s open-source tooling—work on the SOC2-focused comply framework shows his focus on automating compliance, templating, and operational workflows like ticket scheduling. Comfortable moving between architecture and code, he prioritizes shipping reliable, auditable systems that address real customer pain points. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns complex security and access requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (12)
golang10
go10
templater10
template-engine10
template-tags10
template-toolkit10
makefile9
automations9
automation9
compliance8
unit-testing6
newrelic6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
strongdm/comply
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Compliance automation framework, focused on SOC2
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 releases, 197 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Justin's commits primarily focused on modifying and expanding the functionality of the project by making improvements to the template system. They addressed import errors, automated asset refreshes using Makefiles, and introduced changes to the project's codebase related to the ticket scheduler. The user also introduced functionality for creating tickets based on procedure IDs.
hipaapdf-generationcomplianceiso27001compliance-automation
strongdm/homebrew-comply
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Homebrew tap for https://github.com/strongdm/comply
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 6 months
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