Justin Whear
Chief Technology Officer at Koble
Moscow, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Whear is a seasoned software leader and CTO with 11 years of professional experience and a lifetime of coding that began at thirteen, now focused on high-performance NLP extraction and classification at scale. He has a proven track record of growing a single seven-person data team into seven specialized teams while driving major technical overhauls—moving deployment cadence from quarterly to daily and executing zero-downtime rewrites. A hands-on systems architect and developer, Justin brings deep systems programming expertise (D, C/C++, Zig, Python, SQL) and infrastructure experience across AWS, OpenStack, GitLab CI/CD, Nomad, and Consul. He’s contributed to the notable bun JavaScript runtime, implementing low-level OS integrations and hardening core runtime behavior, underscoring his comfort with both application and OS-level engineering. Known for inventing high-throughput NLP techniques and building performant APIs for massive query workloads, he also emphasizes organizational design and leader development to sustain long-term delivery.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Classical Liberal Arts, Bachelors, Classical Liberal Arts at New Saint Andrews College
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
architecture10
system10
zig10
nodejs10
architectures10
testing9
filesystem9
file-operations9
jscript9
fileio9
bundler8
json8
base647
c117
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oven-sh/bun
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Architect
Back-end Developer & System ArchitectContributions:23 reviews, 18 PRs, 2 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the `bun` runtime, focusing on core system functionalities and API improvements. Their work included implementing the `os.cpus` and `os.machine` methods for Linux and Darwin (OS X), which involved interacting with system-level APIs and file system operations. The user also fixed bugs related to JSON parsing, base64 decoding, and file system flags while working with testing, demonstrating expertise in system architecture and core system implementations.
bundlerjavascriptpackage-managertest-runnerbun
jwhear/zig_alt_std
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Parking place for useful std lib functionality
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 4 months
placeparkingstd
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