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Justin Abrahms
Principal Engineer & Technical Leader
Transforming engineering organizations through platform excellence
Key Achievements
Technical Vision
Defined continuous delivery north-star vision and closed technical gaps
Open Source Leadership
CNCF project maintainer, open source board member
High-Scale Systems
Built systems handling 10k+ req/sec at Amazon and led platform teams at Walmart
Multiple Patents
System optimizations, database indexing, and cache eviction technologies
Technical Expertise
Leadership & Process
- System Architecture
- Continuous Delivery
- Open Source Programs
- Technical Mentoring
- Operational Excellence
- Team Leadership
Languages & Frameworks
- Java
- Python
- Go
- Node.js
- React
- Django
Cloud & Infrastructure
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- GraphQL
- Chef
- Fabric
- Heroku
Professional Experience
Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity
Thrive Market September 2024 – PresentLeading infrastructure modernization and platform engineering initiatives at organic food e-commerce company. Focusing on solving DevOps bottlenecks and improving operational excellence.
- Architecting Kubernetes platform to reduce operational complexity and improve developer velocity
- Implementing comprehensive incident review processes to reduce customer-impacting errors
- Solving DQA (Data Quality Assurance) bottlenecks affecting deployment pipelines
- Developing feature flag guidelines and best practices for the engineering organization
- Building on AWS networking and Kubernetes expertise to modernize infrastructure
Principal Architect & Chair of OPSO
eBay June 2021 – June 2023Led acceleration of delivery pace across eBay’s ~700 engineer Payments organization and chaired Open Source Program Office. Transformed teams from worst-in-org performance to implementing continuous delivery practices with fully automated deployments, trunk-based development, and comprehensive testing while achieving top 10% performance rating.
- Achieved 97% participation rate (920 responses) in developer experience survey driving organizational improvements
- Embedded with 7 Payments teams, transforming them to trunk-based development and automated deployments
- Led comprehensive build vs buy analysis and rollout of company-wide feature flagging system
- Defined engineering career framework released company-wide for 2023
- Chaired Open Source Committee, achieving security, compliance, and developer experience goals
Principal Engineer
Walmart October 2019 – May 2021Led platform team for federated GraphQL system that unified Walmart’s two separate e-commerce experiences (Grocery and General Merchandising) into a single platform powering all mobile apps and walmart.com.
- Architected federated GraphQL system with ~20 subgraphs replacing entire e-commerce stack in 14 months
- Unified two separate customer experiences into single Walmart app across Android, iOS, and web
- Designed domain-based architecture eliminating data duplication across services
- Led 11-month development cycle from first check-in to customer rollout
- Established operational excellence culture and cross-organization change management
Software Development Engineer
Amazon April 2016 – October 2019Founding hire for AWS MediaStore project, a data store specifically geared towards live video streaming, launched at AWS re:invent. Later transitioned to pre-launch team that became AWS Skill Builder.
- Built large portions of asynchronous file transfer logic in Go for live video streaming
- Designed data persistence patterns for the main Java stack handling 10k+ req/sec
- Built microservice from ground up for handling access to scarce resources
- Improved operational excellence at both team and organizational levels
- Started lunch-and-learn series educating developers on internal AWS technology
Director of Engineering
Quick Left / Sprintly Aug 2012 – May 2015Led product engineering and managed team through quarterly releases. Focused on software resiliency and quality as driver for customer engagement.
- Documented engineering culture in open source repository
- Led ground-up rewrite of billing system with A/B testing
- Drove big architecture shift towards React + API from coupled Django/Backbone
Open Source Leadership
CNCF OpenFeature
Maintainer & Governing Board Member
Core maintainer of the OpenFeature Java SDK and serving on the governing board of this CNCF project for standardizing feature flag management.
View ContributionsContinuous Delivery Foundation
Governing Board Member
Serving on the governing board of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, helping shape the future of CI/CD practices and tooling across the industry.
eBay Open Source Program
Chair (OPSO)
Led eBay’s Open Source Program Office, establishing policies, processes, and cultural practices that enabled safe and effective open source contribution across the organization.
Speaking & Thought Leadership
PyCon
“Computer Science for the Self-Taught Programmer”
Presented foundational computer science concepts tailored for self-taught developers, bridging the gap between practical programming and theoretical understanding.
OpenFeature Summit
“Migrating to OpenFeature at Scale: 0 to Billions”
Detailed the technical and organizational challenges of migrating feature flag systems to OpenFeature standards across massive scale deployments.
The Craft of Open Source Podcast
Guest Interview
Discussed open source program management, community building, and the intersection of corporate engineering and open source contribution.
Available Speaking Topics
- Practical uses of LLMs for programmers
- Continuous delivery best practices
- Platform engineering for team enablement
- Scaling engineering organizations
- Technical leadership and mentorship
Technical Writing
Learning from Production Incidents
A comprehensive guide to incident analysis, post-mortems, and building systems that learn from failure to prevent future outages.
Read ArticleBig O Notation Explained
Clear, accessible explanation of algorithmic complexity analysis with practical examples for working developers.
Read ArticleFirst and Second Order Metrics
Framework for understanding and implementing metrics that drive meaningful organizational and technical improvements.
Read ArticlePatents & Innovation
Media Storage System
Advanced media asset storage system with intelligent lifecycle management, SHA-256 hashing for optimal distribution, and automated transcoding workflows for efficient streaming.
Database Access Optimization
Hash-based file distribution system that reduces database latency by distributing related files across partitions while maintaining unified permissions management.
Cache Eviction Intelligence
Smart cache management system allowing content providers to specify retention priorities beyond popularity metrics, crucial for live-streaming applications.
Time-Based Media Retrieval
Innovative time code to byte indexing system enabling partial media file retrieval by time range or keywords, eliminating unnecessary downloads.
Media Asset Access Control
Granular permission system for complex media assets with multiple versions and formats across distributed storage systems.
Let’s Connect
Available for speaking engagements, technical consulting, and senior engineering roles.