Justin Quick
Head Of Software at Gnarwhal Studios
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Quick is a seasoned software leader and open-source advocate with 16 years of experience building scalable web applications and developer tooling, now serving as Head of Software at C4ADS. He founded JUSTQUICK, LLC and has long steered technical strategy as CTO of Gnarwhal Studios, blending entrepreneurship with hands-on engineering across media, science, and government-adjacent projects. His work spans CI/CD, cloud-native deployments (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform), and real-time systems, and he has architected mission-critical platforms at the Space Telescope Science Institute and National Geographic. A prolific open-source maintainer, Justin created django-activity-stream and contributed backend improvements to popular Django libraries, demonstrating a knack for making developer ergonomics and documentation better. Based in Baltimore, he pairs pragmatic product focus with deep backend expertise and a track record of helping communities better interact with data on the web.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Goucher College
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
custom-ui10
git-repository10
admin-interface10
customisation10
github-repos10
python10
admin10
django-templates10
django10
documentation10
mptt10
object-mapping9
database-design9
orm9
youtube-api6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
justquick/django-activity-stream
Feb 2010 - Dec 2022
Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site. Users can follow any actors' activities for personalized streams.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 539 commits in 13 years
Contributions summary:Justin's commits primarily focused on documentation fixes, improving the clarity and usability of the project's documentation. The edits included updates to the installation guide, code examples, and API documentation. The user made specific corrections to code snippets within the documentation, ensuring accuracy and consistency, and also added links to RSS and Atom feeds for users.
activitystreams
jazzband/django-categories
Jan 2010 - Sep 2010
This app attempts to provide a generic category system that multiple apps could use. It uses MPTT for the tree storage and provides a custom admin for better visualization (copied and modified from feinCMS).
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the backend logic and structure of the Django application. Their work focused on implementing a generic category system, including registering models, creating custom admin interfaces, and defining fields for category associations. They modified existing templates and added new ones to enhance the admin interface and improve category traversal. The commits indicate a focus on improving the internal workings and data representation of the application.
feincmsmpttvisualization
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