Julian Early
Software Engineer at Chalk
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Early is a versatile software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web systems and data pipelines, currently based in Oakland and working at Chalk. He specializes in Django, GraphQL, and data modeling—having been the first engineer at WanderJaunt where he designed the booking, messaging, billing, and ETL stack that handled thousands of bookings and hundreds of thousands of messages. As a key back-end contributor to the popular strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django project, he extended GraphQL support for Django GIS fields and implemented caching improvements that boosted performance. Julian pairs hands-on engineering with product and hiring experience from CTO and early-team roles, and brings an unusual mix of technical craft and real-world tinkering—bartending, blacksmithing, and bike mechanics—that informs a pragmatic, tools-first approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Major: EECS, Minor: Chinese Language, EECS, Major: EECS, Minor: Chinese Language, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyHead-Royce SchoolChinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at Princeton in Beijing Summer Program
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
pytest10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
python10
django10
type-checking9
typehinting9
enums8
caching7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
strawberry-graphql/strawberry-django
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Strawberry GraphQL Django extension
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 44 commits, 10 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on enhancing the `strawberry-django` library, adding support for Django's GIS fields and improving the type system. They added default typing for Django GEOS fields, redefined point as a scalar, and incorporated tests for the new functionality. Furthermore, the user implemented caching extensions utilizing Django's built-in caching mechanisms, improving the library's performance. The contributions centered around extending the GraphQL integration with Django features.
djangostrawberry-graphqlgraphql
hiporox/strawberry-graphql-django
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Strawberry GraphQL Django extension
Contributions:33 pushes, 14 branches in 11 months
strawberrypythonstrawberry-graphqldjangodjango-extension
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