About Me & Cats

  • Full Name:Justin Fernbaugh
  • Email:fernbaughj@gmail.com
  • Github:Justin-Fernbaugh
  • Location:Portland Oregon

Greetings!

Software and Platform Engineer, with years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Platform Engineering. Underpinned by various certificates including AWS Solutions Architect. I thrive on designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions using technologies like Go, Bazel, GCP/AWS, and Kubernetes.

I have had the privilege of making a real business impact at great organizations. At Apex, I've architected CI/CD pipelines, leveraging unique characteristics of the Bazel build system resulting in a 65%+ P50 improvement, and 80% P90 improvement. Similarly, designed microservices, and systems for orchestrating deployment, creation of manifests and configs for a GitOps pattern. The systems also scaled effectively under load in a 15+ million line codebase handling 500+ builds of 600+ applications, and 1000+ deployments daily in a monorepo.

Moreover, as a Systems Engineer at Oregon State's Open Source Lab, I designed, and deployed critical infrastructure for more than 100 clients, including the Linux Foundation and Apache Software. Highlight being implementing end-to-end the multi-zonal automatic failover of distributed PostgreSQL databases impacting over 150 organizations.

When I'm not learning new technologies, or patterns; I'm often managing my home lab, following Formula 1 racing, or hiking throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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My Resume

  • Work Experience

  • Associate Platform Engineer

    Apex Fintech Solutions - Nov 2024 - Current

    Lead multiple initivatives: Architected CI/CD improving build/test by up to 80%; standardized container creation across Go, Java, Typescript, and Python; team Bazel, and build-system SME on the DevEx team.

  • Startup Co-Founder

    Lavndr - June 2024 - Current

    Head of engineering leveraging AI to create smarter cannabis compliance systems.

  • Systems Engineer

    Oregon State University - Nov 2022 - August 2024

    Open Source Labs has taught immeasurably about working with infrastructure. The day to day involved managing and deploying virtualized environments for clients through the configuration management tool Chef. In addition, to deploying higher profile projects such as a high-availability PostgreSQL cluster with automatic failover capabilites.

  • Software Engineer

    Lithia and Driveway - Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

    Designed back-end systems revolving around business critical operations such as account management, and loans/liens processing. Specifically, I developed APIs for these operations.

  • Instructor

    Coding with Kids - Mar 2019 - Feb 2020

    Taught programming fundamentals at a variety of schools around and in the greater Portland area. The majority of my time was spent both developing curriculum and teaching to youth concepts ranging from basic conditionals to programming Arduinos in C.


  • Education

  • University

    Oregon State University - 2020 - 2024

    Computer Science with a focus on web application development. Relevant coursework included creating the following from scratch, Operating System, SQL & NoSQL DBMS, as well as algorithms courses.

  • High School

    Clackamas High School - 2016 - 2020

    Electronics, Programming and Coding through all four years.

Projects/Contributions