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

    Engineering; Creating a Cannabis Compliance & FinTech EcoSystem

  • Systems Engineer

    Oregon State University - Nov 2022 - August 2024

    Open Source Labs allowed me to gain a breadth of knowledge in regards to working with infrastructure from the CPU to the raid controller all the way up to distributed nodes running connected in a cluster. Notable tech was Chef, Terraform, Ruby, and PgPool in 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 / coding coursework to youth at a variety of schools around and in the greater Portland area. The majority of my time was spent developing curriculum.


  • Education

  • University

    Oregon State University - 2020 - 2024

    Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science with a coursework emphasis on Systems, as well as Distributed Systems.

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