Justin Meyer

Technical Lead Manager – AppOmni
January 2025 - Present

• Grew the SRE team to six engineers.
• Served as DRI for FinOps operations and billing contract negotiations, ensuring financial efficiency and favorable vendor terms.
• Championed agile process improvements that elevated team discipline, visibility, and delivery predictability.
• Established a blameless incident culture and regular retrospectives, fostering continuous improvement and accountability while implementing FireHydrant to enhance incident response.

Lead Site Reliability Engineer – AppOmni
November 2023 - Jan 2025

• Led expansion of the SSPM product, including FinOps cost reduction, asset tagging, and utilization reporting.
• Oversaw “stack” expansion into two compliance markets: FedRAMP and PDPL (data residency).
• Drove PostgreSQL reliability improvements and database scaling initiatives.
• Tools:
  • gitops
  • Terraform / Atlantis
  • FluxCD
  • Python/Django
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • PostgreSQL

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Crusoe.ai
August 2021 - October 2023

• All things building a cloud on remote installed metal:
  • PXE
  • MaaS
  • Ansible
  • Rocky Linux
  • libvirt
  • Tailscale / Wireguard
  • Okta SSO
  • Netbox IPAM
• Non metal:
  • Cloudflare
  • GCP Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • nginx, envoy, pomerium
  • prometheus stack
  • elastic search
• Creating, monitoring, and maintaining services starting underground up into the cloud!
• First SRE at Crusoe, Founding team member of "island cloud" alpha GPU project
• Grew the team of SREs to 6 and implemnted ownership of projects and on-call schedules.

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Adobe
March 2019 – August 2021

• GCP migration and alignment
• AWS service management and maintenance
• Ongoing migration to containerized and or cloud native deployments
• Monitoring, logging, and continuous improvement within Marketo’s existing DCs on bare metal hosts
• Management of 6k hosts via puppet, pdsh, and ansible
• Unified authentication with sssd, pam.d and corporate ldap

Site Reliability Engineer – ebay
Nov 2018 – March 2019

• Worked in the SEC covering eBay’s 300B events/day on over 6k different services
• Expanded mobile market into China
• oAuth with core products, token cache service written in scala/play, python/flask
• Infrastructure as code using terraform.io, Google Cloud Platform, chat bot integration
• golang drone.io for CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
• Multi region redundancy, cost reduction analysis in GCP
• Multi monitoring with Prometheus/AlertManager
• Migrated logging to daemonset deployed sumologic collector
• Security auditing in GKE using fluentd and stackdriver,
• Secret management, hashicorp vault implementation, fraud detection/browser fingerprinting
• Setup centralized maven repository and migrated CD

Sr Full Stack Dev / Cloud Engineer – AppThis
Jan 2017 – July 2017

• AWS engineer: cost reduction AWS, reduced under utilization
• Automation with salt stack.
• Custom HAproxy scaling, request processing SLA < 100ms
• Log shipping migration to streams
• PHP + hiphop, PHP7, Java, Scala (Play)

Full Stack Developer – CenturyLink
Nov 2016 – Jan 2017

• VeuxDu team member working on e911 and SpeakEasy projects.
• Java 1.8 + Springboot micro service development

Sr Cloud Engineer – starz
Jun 2016 – Nov 2016

• Used a wide breadth of tools in AWS and local platforms such as Terraform, Consul, Nomad, Packer, Docker, Bamboo, and Ansible.
• Tasked with building a PaaS agnostic dashboard for allowing a wider spread of users to create redirects on starz.com. Dashboard built on meteor/node with an Angular2 frontend that manages a cluster of nginx servers.

Senior Developer – ThinkTank, GroupSystems
Feb 2015 – Jun 2016

• Full-Stack Java developer supporting and maintaining existing hosted and installed SaaS collaboration product.
• In memory database employed for contribution based transaction shipping and long polling
• Lead on breaking product from monolith to hosted micro services
• Wide spread of technologies employed: Spring Security, bootstrap, SAML2, Jetty, Install4J, Comet, Angular, GWT, .NET-interOp, Redis, ActiveMQ

Systems Developer – Xilinx
2009 – Feb 2015

• Developed a training management system to keep track of multiple aspects of the training credit system
• Aggregated data from multiple sources for display to the sales force in a dashboard
• Internationalized online schedules, course list/description management and data collection
• Automated publish with Adobe CQ5
• Self trained VHDL on Zynq red FPGA board

Lead Web Developer – University of Colorado Web Communications
1999 – 2006

• Developed and maintained a variety projects mostly Java, JavaScript, Perl, and Actionscript
• Modified existing applications to adhere to new standards and technology along with absolute browser compatibility
• High availability student online registration system
• Created CGI programs to interface with a variety of applications.
• Experienced in format manipulation to suit needs
• Generative flat file search engine

RocketScience Innovation LLC
2006 – 2019 Full-Time, Ongoing

• Founder of a technology development corporation.
• 13-year contract with Open Range Access.com in oil field and data telemetry
• Object Oriented Software Development with PHP, Java, Perl, JavaScript, Python
• DevOps Role of VPC setup and migration to the cloud
• Hardware design and microcontroller programming
• Satellite/RF/Cellular Communications
• Real time telemetry logging and ETL to accounting

codeffects.com LLC
2001 – 2006

• Contract development company
• Development (PERL, Java, C/C++, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XSLT, RSS, SH, SEO)
• Web page and graphic design
• DevOps site hosting and co-lo setup
• Unix/Linux Administration