Justin Grimes

Vice President of Software Engineering

OPENLANE

Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)

𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀: Oversee engineering strategy and execution for a diverse portfolio of high-impact products and services, including AutoVIN, Canadian Marketplaces, Physical Auction Platforms, Financial Services, Data Engineering, and Commercial Marketplace Integrations. 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 & 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Develop and implement short-term goals and multi-year technical roadmaps, ensuring alignment with company growth and operational goals. 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲-𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆: Lead major cross-functional projects, coordinating hundreds of contributors to align technical solutions with business objectives. 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗥𝗲�

Chief Software Architect

OPENLANE

Feb 2020 - Apr 2022 (2 years 3 months)

𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: • 𝗖𝗜/𝗖𝗗 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗮𝘂𝗹: Modernized deployment pipelines, reducing deployment time from 2+ weeks with 3 hours of downtime to multiple zero-downtime deployments per day. • 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Led the design and rollout of modern services to bring disparate platforms together, improving system interoperability. • 𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Worked closely with Pr

DevOps Practice Manager

DeveloperTown

Jan 2019 - Feb 2020 (1 year 2 months)

Developer

DeveloperTown

Apr 2017 - Feb 2020 (2 years 11 months)

• Supporting sales teams with cost estimates and early customer contact • Building CI/CD pipelines for various projects, typically with containers and K8s in both AWS and GKE • Delivering features for clients in Ruby, C#, Java, Python, Typescript, and a tiny smattering of C++, React, and Angular • Automating infrastructure with Packer, Terraform, and Ansible on top of AWS, GCP, and VMWare • Experienced in Rancher, K8s, Openshift • Worked with IoT devices to develop software for both the device and cloud • Growing a devops practice by recruiting, giving talks, and delivering with large enterprise clients • Helping other developers grow

Chief Software Engineer

Indigo BioSystems

Feb 2014 - Apr 2017 (3 years 3 months)

General Responsibilities: • Driving technical vision of our products • Scaling the development team and its workflows • Coding • Passionately collaborating what goes into our products Current Efforts: • GraphQL support with an abstraction between GraphQL and our domain model • Replacement of AWS ECS for Kubernetes • Investigating replacing TokuMX(Mongo) with an RDBMS • Revising the technical roadmap • Data modeling exercise to elicit a clear ubiquitous language within the team Past Achievements: • Converted our build pipeline to Docker • Migrated our product to AWS • Production deploys using docker(AWS ECS) since June 2016 • Two Elixir(Phoenix) micro services in production in a low risk area

Senior Software Engineer

Indigo BioSystems

Nov 2010 - Jan 2014 (3 years 3 months)

• Mentoring other engineers in writing clean, testable and maintainable code • Prioritizing and managing features and work in progress on the Ascent product based on input from various stakeholders using daily stand up meetings, two week long iterations and planning poker to estimate in ideal time the required amount of time to complete a task • Contributing to the technical vision and product roadmap of the company by ensuring it is in alignment with the amount of agility necessary for new product development • Designed and implemented features with Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber/Rspec with Ruby, SpecFlow/NUnit for C# and Selenium/Junit for Java • Writing a domain specific language rules engine using

Software Engineer

Indigo BioSystems

May 2009 - Nov 2010 (1 year 7 months)

• Wrote a prototype in Java using Play! for our flagship product called Ascent • Pivoted from Java to Ruby on Rails by migrating the Ascent prototype and explaining the developer productivity gains and business value gains by moving to Ruby on Rails while introducing Test Driven Development to the development team • Migrated a native Resource Description Framework(RDF) store implementation with Sesame in Java • Developed features in Java using Spring, JUnit and Maven for a proof of concept sample handling system supporting hundreds of assay types • Ran weekly customer status meetings to provide updates on existing progress, demoing new features and taking customer feedback to improve the newly added features • Developed a form designer that

Software Engineer Intern

Indigo BioSystems

May 2008 - May 2009 (1 year 1 month)

• Setup and maintained Hudson(now Jenkins) server for automating builds and deployments to internal test servers for all products and projects • Designed and implemented a C# application using Windows Workflow Foundation that automated the processing of raw mass spectrometry data and published PDF reports of the data to be swept up by other software systems • Developed features in Java using Spring, JUnit and Maven for a lab workflow automation project • Maintained a windows form based desktop application that performs quantitative analysis on mass spectrometry data • Refactored a math precision library in C# backed by NUnit tests to use a native precision library to remove rounding errors

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