Justin Nuss is a results-driven Regional Sales Manager for agriculture with 11+ years of experience blending agribusiness expertise, sales leadership, and an MBA to consistently exceed targets and build high-performing teams. Based in Gretna, Nebraska, he has a proven track record scaling revenue and pipelines across roles at Barchart and DTN, mentoring colleagues and implementing forecasting and mentorship programs that drove repeat President’s Club performance. Beyond sales, Justin brings a rare technical bent—an active Go contributor who has optimized core libraries and clients (including work on golang/go and gRPC) to reduce allocations and improve performance—demonstrating analytical rigor and attention to efficiency. He pairs deep industry knowledge in production agriculture and customer relations with hands-on problem solving in vendor relations, hiring, and inventory management, making him effective at translating technical product improvements into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Interdisciplinary Business, MBA, Interdisciplinary Business at Bellevue University
BS, Horticulture, BS, Horticulture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Contributions:14 reviews, 205 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily focused on optimizing the performance of the Redis client for Go. Their work involved making benchmark tests more consistent and refactoring the code to avoid allocations when parsing integers and string arguments. They also removed a custom pattern matching implementation for subscriptions. Furthermore, the user added support for Redis streams, including features like XREAD and XREADGROUP commands.
general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 5 years
Contributions summary:Justin focused on optimizing the performance and efficiency of the `sqlx` library, specifically targeting the `In` and `Rebind` functions. Their contributions involved rewriting and optimizing these functions using techniques such as specialized type handling and using more efficient data structures like `strings.Builder`. They also added benchmarks to measure and validate the performance improvements. These changes highlight a focus on improving the library's core functionality and performance for database interaction.
golangmysqlsql-databasesqlpurpose
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Justin Nuss - Regional Sales Manager Agriculture at Barchart