Justin Haynes is a Seattle-based Director of Engineering with 12 years of experience leading cloud-native infrastructure, systems, and container platform teams across AWS, Google, Zillow, and startups. He combines hands-on systems engineering—contributions to high-profile projects like Amazon ECS agent updates and Bottlerocket—with leadership roles that scale teams and delivery from SRE to principal engineering. Known for pragmatic release and deployment improvements (including tooling and websocket logging work in ECS), he navigates complex distributed systems and operational reliability while driving product-focused engineering. His background in physics and chemical engineering informs a methodical, data-driven approach to problem solving and systems design.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics - Material Science, BS Physics - Material Science at Southern Oregon University
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Contributions:4 releases, 18 commits, 18 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Justin's contributions primarily involve updating the Amazon ECS agent, including version bumps and configuration adjustments. They added a script for repointing the latest agent, suggesting involvement in release management and deployment processes. Furthermore, the user implemented logging improvements for websocket connections within the agent, demonstrating an understanding of the agent's internal communication and troubleshooting.
Contributions:4 releases, 14 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 3 months
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