Justin Adkins

• Senior Software Engineer
• February 2022 - Present
• Remote/New York, NY USA

Responsibilities

• Working to build the best tools for developers to analyze, report on, and optimize cloud costs.

• Owner
• Oct 2017 - Present
• Columbus, OH USA

Responsibilities

• Use Kubernetes and HashiCorp products to provide affordable technical solutions to local governments, businesses, and political candidates.
• Built Hubble, a campaign management platform to help candidates and community organizations run winning campaigns with efficient voter outreach.
• Designed and open-sourced Hermes, an application that handles logging and routing emails to AWS.
• Created e-commerce site for client where customers book workshops and pick DIY projects to be built. Credit Card and PayPal processing handled by Braintree.

• Senior Software Engineer
• July 2021 - February 2022
• Remote/San Francisco, CA USA

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers as a member of the internal tools team to coordinate the improve- ment of an event-driven architecture.
• Blocked automated bot traffic and encouraged users to upgrade to the latest version of their browsers.
• Increased employee productivity 48% by improving the efficiency in which customers jobs that required manual intervention or follow-up where identified and resolved.

• Software Developer
• May 2018 - July 2021
• Remote/Columbus, OH USA

Responsibilities

• Designed, implement, and maintain Rails applications in a microservice environment for the CoverMyMeds product line
• Drove increase in annual recurring revenue by coordinating with analytics team and running user A/B experiments across various product features.
• Assumed ownership of a large and complex legacy codebase written in an unfamiliar language. Improved existing code while also adding new features, enhancements, and tests.
• Researched business logic across multiple services and discovered a change that allowed a features rollout to increase from 4% to 68% of userbase.
• Lead team in analyzing applications and features for risks; After identifying more than 50, coordinated with engineering manager and product owners to prioritize fixes and mitigate risks to under 10.

• Software Development Specialist 4
• Nov 2013 - May 2018
• Columbus, OH USA

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of full-time developers and consultants
• Gathered requirements for, designed, and implemented enterprise-level systems. Systems were composed of internal and external networks used by people throughout the department and State of Ohio.
• Rewrote legacy systems into efficient modern systems. Simplified process workflows and automated manual tasks performed by employees as much as possible.
• Mentored fellow developers and interns, delegate and prioritize tasks, track progress and reviewed their final products on a daily basis.

Position History

• Software Development Specialist 4
  Jan 2017 - May 2018
• Software Development Specialist 3
  Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
• Software Development Specialist 2
  Oct 2014 - Oct 2015
• Software Development Specialist 1
  Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
• College Intern
  Nov 2013 - Apr 2014