About Me & Cats

  • Full Name:Justin Fernbaugh
  • Email:fernbaughj@gmail.com
  • Github:Justin-Fernbaugh
  • Location:Beaverton/Portland Oregon

Hello There!

As a Software Engineer and Systems Engineer, I’ve cultivated a strong foundation in platform engineering, DevOps, and cloud technologies. At Open Source Labs, I enhanced infrastructure for major clients like the Linux Foundation using Terraform, Chef, and other tools. My tenure at Lithia and Driveway further sharpened my skills, where I developed APIs to optimize business processes and boost operational efficiency.

In addition to these roles, I'm 'engineering a solution that focuses on AI-powered inventory management, and led an open-source project to build a classroom polling platform. These experiences allowed me to manage software projects, lead teams, and understand the nuances of the many trade-offs in software development. My time as a mentor at Coding With Kids also strengthened my ability to collaborate and teach.

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My Resume

  • Work Experience

  • Associate Platform Engineer

    Apex Fintech Solutions - Nov 2024 - Current

    Leveraging Go and infrastructure as code tools on the Developer experience team.

  • Startup Co-Founder

    Lavndr - June 2024 - Current

    Head of engineering leveraging AI to create smarter cannabis compliance systems.

  • Systems Engineer

    Oregon State University - Nov 2022 - August 2024

    Previously working for Open Source Labs has taught immeasurable amounts about working with infrastructure. The day to day involved managing and deploying virtualized environments for clients through the infrastructure-as-code tool Chef. In addition, to deploying higher profile projects such as a high-availability PostgreSQL cluster with automatic failover capabilites.

  • Software Engineer

    Lithia and Driveway - Sep 2022 - Nov 2022

    I worked part-time whilst attending University continuing to work as a part of the same team during my internship. Unfortunately, this was short-lived as the position was eliminated during a reorganization due to macro economic conditions.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Lithia and Driveway - Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

    During my internship I worked as a part of a team developing internal tools supporting business critical operations such as processing loans/liens. Specifically, I developed APIs for these operations.

  • Instructor

    Coding with Kids - Mar 2019 - Feb 2020

    I was an Instructor teaching programming fundamentals throughout my senior year of high school. I had the opportunity to teach at a variety of schools around and in the greater Portland area. The majority of my time was spent both developing curriculum and teaching to youth concepts ranging from basic conditionals to programming Arduinos in C.


  • Education

  • University

    Oregon State University - 2020 - 2024

    Majoring in Computer Science with applied option in web and mobile application development.

  • High School

    Clackamas High School - 2016 - 2020

    Three years of Electronics & Programming and Coding.

Projects

Ju2tin Website

Chef Postgresql Contributor

Chef Fauxhai Contributor

Classroom Polling

Minecraft Deployment

Map Reduce

Bind Ports

Small Shell

Counter-Strike Modification