Justin Yost
Staff Software Engineer at Wirecutter
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Yost is a Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently leading reliability and engineering initiatives at Wirecutter in Las Vegas. He combines hands-on development—especially in PHP/Laravel and infrastructure (Ansible, Terraform, AWS)—with people leadership, technical discovery, and knowledge sharing across organizations. His background includes managing product platforms, leading API-driven applications, and creating deployment systems that keep content and affiliate revenue flowing reliably. A part-time educator and longtime technical writer for CakePHP documentation and Lynda.com courses, he brings a strong bias for clear documentation and developer enablement. Outside of work he’s a committed backpacker and self-described constant student who notably dislikes the Oxford comma.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Texas Tech UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Egineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Egineering at Kettering University
English
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Github Skills (15)
cakephp10
documentation10
technical-writing10
html9
css9
pdf6
internet-explorer6
php6
javascript6
validation6
jquery6
anchor6
height6
database6
git3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/docs
Sep 2013 - May 2016
CakePHP CookBook
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 commits, 26 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the documentation of the CakePHP framework. Their commits focused on improving clarity, correcting grammar and spelling errors, and updating the documentation to reflect changes in the API and best practices. The user also updated the documentation to reflect CakePHP community guidelines, added clarifying language around specific functions, and made organizational improvements to the documentation structure.
phpcookbookcakephp
loadsys/CakePHP-Plugin-Skeleton
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 12 PRs, 12 pushes in 9 months
2-xtestingphptesting-toolscakephp
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