Justin Nel
Senior Product Engineer at Cogent Labs
Shibuya, Japan
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Top SchoolJustin Nel is a Senior Product Engineer based in Tokyo with 14 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining reliable, scalable systems across web, cloud, and embedded domains. He excels at navigating complex legacy architectures and translating shifting business priorities into practical, low-regression engineering solutions while owning end-to-end delivery. Comfortable both leading teams and working independently, Justin blends pragmatic architecture decisions with a focus on maintainability, automation, and continuous improvement. His background spans TypeScript, NodeJS, C#, React, GraphQL and cloud migrations, and he has a track record of creating bespoke integrations (payments, ERP/CRM) and tooling that become the team's single source of truth. A self-directed learner and conference speaker, he also crafts hardware-software projects and event platforms, reflecting a rare mix of systems-level thinking and maker curiosity.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Higher National Certificate, Information Technology, Distinction, Higher National Certificate, Information Technology, Distinction at Chichester College
English
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Github Skills (200)
transmission10
mappings10
bundler10
csv10
openvpn10
nodejs10
bittorrent10
npm10
soap10
file-management9
javascript9
torrent9
esmodules9
bun9
v8-javascript-engine9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Cyberlane/LizTattoo
Mar 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 PRs, 273 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 9 months
Cyberlane/Cyber-Lane-Jekyll
Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:102 pushes, 3 issues in 2 years 5 months
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