Justin Ross
Engineering Manager at Red Hat
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Ross is an experienced engineering manager in Cambridge, MA with 14 years leading teams that build distributed systems, database-backed web applications, and responsive UIs—currently managing Red Hat’s AMQ Clients team. He combines hands-on development (notably maintaining and improving Apache Qpid projects and website content) with a focus on team communication, issue management, and productization to keep releases reliable and customers supported. His background includes designing web management consoles and automated testing infrastructure, plus early work building high-traffic travel systems and a patented UI toolkit. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex messaging and integration needs into pragmatic engineering plans while keeping teams effective and responsive. He’s comfortable in both C++/backend maintenance and web-facing product work, and brings a long track record of improving documentation and build processes in open-source projects.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Russian Language and Literature, Russian Language and Literature at The Evergreen State CollegeHistory, History at Harvard Extension School
English
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
amqp9
messaging9
cpp8
standard-library7
common-library7
c-library7
apache6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
apache/qpid-proton
Oct 2015 - Dec 2019
Mirror of Apache Qpid Proton
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 102 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the Apache Qpid Proton project by modifying C++ binding documentation, including updating overviews, tutorials, adding API documentation, correcting links, and cleaning up header files. They also made changes to the build process, bumping the SO version and updating versions on the master branch. The user focused on improving the documentation and formatting of the code, and making minor adjustments to various include files.
pythonprotonqpid-protonpython2ruby
ssorj/dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:87 commits, 85 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 5 months
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