Summary
Justin Sermeno is a senior software engineer based in Seattle with 15 years building globally distributed, highly available, low-latency server-side systems and fault-tolerant data infrastructure. At Amazon he leads architecture and delivery across multiple teams, driving microservice designs, experiment velocity for director- and SVP-level orgs, and mentoring engineers on operational best practices. His background spans startups and scale-ups—designing exactly-once stream processing and throughput-optimized pipelines at Diffos and operating high-volume ETL and API platforms at Game Closure. Justin prioritizes well-tested, well-documented code and pragmatic delivery, balancing maintainable abstractions with business needs. He has hands-on experience across languages and stacks (from Clojure and Java to Ruby and Python) and a knack for reducing operational surface area while increasing system throughput.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS with Distinction in the Major, Computer Science 2010, BS with Distinction in the Major, Computer Science 2010 at UC Santa Barbara