Justin Meyer

Justin Meyer

Software Engineer, Service Reliability Engineer, DevOps Evangelist, Data Scientist, Sailor, Pilot

Contact Me

About Me

I'm bad at personal websites, this is all I have time for.

Latest Meat-Space Projects

Heated Floor

Heated floors via open loop hot water. Oh the humanity legonella! JK it works far better than expected!

Grill

The first project went so well with concrete, I re-upped for another ton of fun.

Fire Pit

My first attempt at making anything out of concrete.

I made it to the front page of reddit with this one for a short period of time.

Subsequent projects have also gone on r/DIY seeking cheap adoration

Attic Exhaust Fan

Rarely need AC in CO with this.

Next Step will be to automate the AC system with zwave automatic windows.

Pocket Mirror

Using wasted space as a full length mirror in the bathroom.

pen Source and 3d printering

Wet Catfood Feeder

Wet cat food winch opener. Runs off raspberry pi and cron jobs bec i'm a hack and this is good enough.

Misc Models

Various things not worthy of their own repo.

More on Github

Work Experience

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Crusoe Energy
August 2021 - now

  • All things building a cloud on 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!

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

Sub-contract through insight global
  • 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

University of Colorado Web Communications – Lead Web Developer
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

Entrepreneurial Endeavors

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