Justin Wells
Staff Software Engineer at PayPal
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Wells is a Staff Software Engineer based in Austin with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems across companies like PayPal, Google, Discord, and Braintree. He brings deep hands-on expertise in scalable product engineering and a lifelong curiosity—starting from modifying a Visual Basic game engine at 13—to continuously improve through deliberate learning practices like spaced repetition and interleaving. Comfortable shifting between startup and large-scale environments, he blends practical system design with a gamer’s passion for crafting engaging software. Though he began a CS degree at Ohio State, his career progression demonstrates strong applied engineering instincts and leadership across payment and communications platforms. He’s equally likely to debate The Great British Bake Off as he is to tinker with memorization techniques or braid an eight-strand plait in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering, Unfinished Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (46)
payment-integration10
payment-gateway10
payment-processing10
payment10
golang10
adyen10
data-analysis10
shopify9
rendering9
javascript9
webgl9
canvas9
abstraction9
phaser9
braintree9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
justinleewells/stratagem
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
A lightweight node module for making turn-based and tactical RPG games
Contributions:2 PRs, 138 pushes, 12 branches in 8 years 3 months
starcraftgamegamestactical-rpgrpg
justinleewells/pogo-optimizer
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:228 commits, 44 PRs, 78 pushes in 12 days
golangdata-analysispokemon-gomitm
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