Justin R
Founder at Sneakernet Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin R is a seasoned founder and engineer based in San Francisco with over 20 years solving systems, network, and infrastructure challenges while treating security as a first-class product feature. He combines hands-on site reliability and DevOps leadership at scale—most recently as a senior SRE at Google and as founder of Sneakernet Labs—with deep experience modernizing developer productivity across companies like Fitbit, OneLogin, and Scribd. Justin has repeatedly led migrations, CI/CD and monitoring initiatives, and operational habitability projects for mission-critical services including large cloud platforms and film-industry collaboration tools. Known as a “software archaeologist,” he brings a pragmatic curiosity for legacy systems and a knack for surfacing technical debt in ways that drive durable improvements. Beyond engineering, he’s been active in labor organizing within big tech and pursues interdisciplinary study in mathematics and community organizing, a mix that informs his pragmatic, people-centered approach to tooling and process.
20 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Visual / Game Programming Media Arts & Animation, Visual / Game Programming Media Arts & Animation at Art Institute of California - San FranciscoCannabis Studies Labor and Community Organizing, Cannabis Studies Labor and Community Organizing at City College of San FranciscoComputer Science, Computer Science at Austin Community College
Github Skills (155)
sensu10
rewrite10
testing9
cloud-monitoring9
command-line-tool9
recipe9
docker9
gnu9
requirements-management9
busybox9
cookbook9
lighttable9
tdd9
rust8
vagrant8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bitmonk/setup
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 7 months
justizin/rust-coreutils
Apr 2021 - Jul 2023
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
rustlinuxgnucoreutilscross-platform
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