Hi, I'm Justin.

I'm a backend and distributed systems engineer studying Computer and Data Science at Rutgers. Most of my work lives in the server layer: high-performance infrastructure, services that coordinate across process boundaries over gRPC and Protobuf, and the data pipelines feeding them. I write mostly Go and Python, usually with Gin or FastAPI in front, and I spend a lot of time in SQL - Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and pgvector when the problem is semantic search - deployed across AWS and GCP.

What I actually care about is performance. Where the latency is hiding, which query is doing ten times the work it needs to, how a system degrades instead of collapsing when load shows up unannounced. There's a real gap between code that works and code that holds up under production conditions, and closing that gap - through profiling, better API design, and data models that stay correct when things go wrong - is the part of the job I like most.

Outside of school and code, I bowl, box, play basketball, volleyball, and pickleball, and pick up the guitar when I want to slow down. I'm also someone who needs regular walks with music in my ears to think clearly, and I make time for my friends whenever I can. It keeps me balanced against the hours I spend heads down in a terminal.