Justin Pumford
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Pumford is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building developer productivity tools, compiler-inspired backends, and scalable web platforms. Currently at Meta he focuses on AI CLI tooling and code authoring services for Reality Labs, after progressing from senior roles there and at Adobe where he led GraphQL/Graph and microfrontend initiatives. His background blends a math degree with hands-on systems work—writing an optimizing compiler that saved millions in cloud costs and architecting AI recommendation queries with graph similarity. He’s repeatedly improved team velocity and reliability through SRE practices, pipeline automation, and mentorship-driven pair programming. Comfortable across full stacks and infrastructure, he often brings compiler and math-minded approaches to practical product problems. Outside typical engineering expectations, he’s known for translating complex systems into repeatable processes that scale multiple teams’ contributions.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Minor Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mathematics Minor Computer Science at Utah Valley University
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (82)
http10
web-development10
mongoose10
javascript10
docker-compose10
django-rest-framework10
mozilla10
css10
fundamentals9
django9
domo9
html9
python9
docker9
react9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DomoApps/advanced-sample-app
May 2016 - Apr 2017
An advanced sample custom app design built with starter-kit
Contributions:239 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 10 months
app-design
jpumford/dotfiles
May 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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