Justin Van Horne
Director, Software Engineering at Varda Space Industries
El Segundo, California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Van Horne is a Director of Software Engineering with 15 years building high-assurance systems for space and flight operations, currently leading software at Varda Space Industries out of El Segundo. He combines deep hands-on experience across embedded flight software, real-time Linux drivers, and ground infrastructure with people leadership—scaling teams from small ragtag groups to dedicated SRE and network organizations at SpaceX. His career spans satellite networking, vehicle avionics, mission telemetry, and cloud-native ground systems, with practical wins like recovering failed hardware in orbit and squeezing 5x more throughput to the ground. Justin enjoys low-level problems as much as higher-level system design, and he repeatedly returns to game engine work as a side fascination, reflecting a broad appetite for performance and simulation. He brings a pragmatic engineering style that favors simplified, auditable spacecraft designs for successful LEOPs while maintaining firmware-to-cloud fluency. Educated at the University of Arizona, he pairs curiosity-driven technical craft with a track record of shipping mission-critical software.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
justinvh/git-issue
Apr 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:45 commits in 8 days
justinvh/Rogue-Reborn
Sep 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:73 commits in 3 months
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