Justin De Burgo is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of experience building full-stack and cloud-native tooling, currently advancing developer experience at American Airlines by integrating Backstage with Azure Kubernetes. He specializes in React, Node.js, and Python, and has led development of multiple FastAPI services that streamline platform functionality and team onboarding. An active contributor to the popular Backstage open-source project, Justin has implemented catalog import filtering, backend ingestion rules, UI changes, and tests—work that reflects both front-end and back-end fluency. With a Computer Science degree from the University of Maryland and a background spanning internships and research institutions, he blends practical production delivery with a habit of contributing back to the developer community. Notably, he focuses on creating developer-facing tools that reduce operational friction, making it easier for teams to deploy and iterate safely at scale.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Maryland
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at DeMatha Catholic High School
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the catalog-import and catalog-backend plugins within the Backstage framework. Their work involved implementing features like filtering for the catalog import process and adjusting rules for catalog entity ingestion. They modified UI components and backend code, demonstrating a full-stack skillset. The user also updated and added tests within the repository.
Contributions:23 reviews, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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