About

Justin B is a Lead Consultant at Knoldus Inc, with 4+ years of experience in Product Development/Consulting, Project Management/Agile/Scrum across multiple domains in Scala, Java, and Clojure. He is a Reactive Platform & Functional programming enthusiast, with a keen interest in building scalable products and executing/maintaining their development lifecycle including practices like TDD, BDD. Justin is a seasoned professional in developing, maintaining, laying out teams/processes/infrastructure for microservices based architecture. He is proficient in Functional programming and Object-Oriented concepts and has implemented process improvement by consistently evaluating processes, garnering feedback, and rolling out changes as required. Justin is a specialist in building reactive applications and has expertise in Scala, Akka, Play Framework, Java, Java8, Distributed Systems, Reactive Applications, ElasticSearch, SQL, Architecture, Development/Consultancy, Project Management, Scrum, Agile. He has worked as a Senior Software Consultant and Software Consultant at Knoldus Inc. He was responsible for the development of the real-time data lake for Knoldus, including ingestion in Kafka of multiple data sources, computing the data with Spark Streaming, normalizing the data in avro format, storage of the data in HDFS and Cassandra, and development of APIs with Spray to access the data. The platform was split between a Mesos cluster and a Cloudera cluster. Justin holds a Master of Computer Science degree in the Field Of Study Business rule extraction from the University of New Brunswick, a D.E.C degree in the Field Of Study Computer Science from CEGEP - John Abbott College, and a High School Diploma from Lakeside School. He is proficient in SQL, Microservices, infra, Scala, Java, Elastic Search, Clojure, HDFS, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, and has a relevant experience of 9.86 years. Justin is a proactive problem solver, and his ability to evaluate processes and implement process improvement has helped him excel in his career.