Justin Wheeler
Fedora Community Architect (FCA) at Red Hat
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Wheeler is a Fedora Community Architect at Red Hat with 12 years of experience building and growing open source communities and infrastructure. He blends hands-on engineering—contributions to projects like ListenBrainz server and automating Fedora infrastructure—with community strategy, diversity and inclusion advising, and technical writing. Justin has led community programs for organizations including UNICEF and CHAOSS, mentoring startups and shaping measurable open-source engagement practices that became reusable frameworks. He’s comfortable across the stack, from back-end data processing and configuration to front-end documentation and developer onboarding. Known for making complex processes more transparent and reproducible, he often turns operational work into teachable documentation and tooling. Based in the United States, he pairs practical systems expertise with a focus on inclusive, scalable community growth.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Network and System Administration, 3.5 GPA, Bachelor's degree, Network and System Administration, 3.5 GPA at Rochester Institute of Technology
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
rest10
sphinx10
documentation10
python9
docker8
dockers8
database7
databases7
webpages6
web-content6
typescript4
typescripts4
react4
typescript-types4
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/listenbrainz-server
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Server for the ListenBrainz project, including the front-end (javascript/react) code that it serves and all of the data processing components that LB uses.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Back-end Developer
Technical Writer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 17 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Justin focused on improving the project's documentation, adding a detailed guide for setting up a development environment and streamlining existing documentation. They addressed build and style issues, ensuring the documentation accurately reflected the project's API and build processes. The user also made code changes to the project, initializing databases and modifying configuration files.
reactpythondata-processingjavascriptbig-data
ritjoe/hfoss
Jan 2016 - Jan 2020
Humanitarian/Free Open Source Software Development.
Contributions:19 PRs, 34 comments, 1 issue in 4 years
phpopen-source-softwarehumanitarian
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