Justin Tieri
Engineering Manager at Noble
Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Tieri is an engineering manager with eight years of experience building and leading backend teams in blockchain and distributed systems. He combines hands-on Go development and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions migrating the IBC relayer to ibc-go v2/v3 and adding dynamic fee pricing on Osmosis—with a track record of improving CI/CD, GitHub hygiene, and open-source collaboration. As Director of Engineering at Strangelove Crypto he balanced client-facing delivery, product prioritization, and team growth, and now leads engineering at Noble. Justin’s background in sales and frontline service roles informs his empathetic leadership and client communication skills, helping him translate technical tradeoffs into business outcomes. Outside of work he pursues archival preservation, game emulation, and reverse engineering, demonstrating a practical curiosity for decentralization and long-term data integrity. Based in Valparaiso, Indiana, he blends operational rigor with an ability to adapt quickly in dynamic technical environments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Purdue University Northwest
Github Skills (9)
bc10
cosmos-sdk10
go10
devops8
blockchain7
dockers7
docker7
api6
apidoc6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
cosmos/relayer
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
An IBC relayer for ibc-go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 430 reviews, 121 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Justin primarily contributed to the migration of the relayer to ibc-go v2 and ibc-go v3, involving code refactoring, import changes, and fixing of errors. They also worked on dependency bumps and various bug fixes. Furthermore, the user added support for dynamic fee pricing on osmosis and introduced improved error logging, showcasing their understanding of the relayer's underlying workings and infrastructure.
go
cosmos/ibc-apps
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
IBC applications and middleware for Cosmos SDK chains.
Contributions:5 releases, 80 reviews, 117 PRs in 2 years
cosmos-sdkmiddleware
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