JY

Justin Young

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I am a Senior Software Engineer with about 6 years of experience. My work emphasizes scalable thinking, operational efficiency, and transparent execution through automation workflows that reduce handoffs.

About

I am a Senior Software Engineer with about 6 years of experience. My work emphasizes scalable thinking, operational efficiency, and transparent execution through automation workflows that reduce handoffs. I’ve built reliable services by integrating third-party systems while protecting data integrity and delivering dependable user journeys across web and mobile experiences.

I focus on building, scaling, and improving systems that support real-world operations, balancing modern consumer app expectations with marketplace-style connections for operators and end users. I own and manage services end-to-end and translate ops needs into clear technical plans with documentation to boost cross-team collaboration.

  • 6 years' experience
  • Joined May 2026

Industry experience

  • Software & Internet
  • Real Estate & Construction
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 6 roles

Senior Software Engineer · SamsaraMar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Led backend microservices for IoT-backed fleet management, driving a scalable multi-tenant platform. Improved automation workflows and data synchronization, reducing manual checks by 38% and cutting incident impact to 12 minutes during peak usage. Implemented event-driven processing and guardrails to speed triage from 3 hours to 41 minutes. Integrated third-party billing feeds with standardized contracts and 99.2% reconciliation accuracy. Instrumented end-to-end performance across web and mobile apps, achieving a 24% reduction in tail latency during traffic spikes. Owned release playbooks and rollout strategies, achieving 97.6% deployment success without customer disruption. Enhanced identity and authorization flows to boost partner onboarding throughput by 1.7x while maintaining compliant access. Translated operational requirements into technical plans and produced documentation to boost cross-team efficiency.

Software Engineer P3 · ZillowMay 2022 – Mar 2023 · 11 mos

Supported high-traffic listing search and marketplace features, expanding and refining user-facing web applications. Built scalable search ranking features, improving relevance metrics by 7.4% and reducing mismatches through tighter data normalization. Automated index updates, cutting stale-result windows from 6 hours to 1 hour. Integrated geocoding and enrichment services, achieving 94.8% match rate and reducing manual review cycles. Coordinated rollout plans across market segments, lowering regression escape rate to 0.8% for search-related changes.

Software Engineer P2 · ZillowJul 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed and maintained property search and mortgage workflow services, owning end-to-end rental and buyer journeys. Improved search response times by 23% for high-density queries and automated mortgage data handoffs, reducing rework by 31%. Enhanced payments infrastructure with Stripe reconciliation accuracy at 98.9% and lowered support escalations. Harmonized shared validation rules across web and mobile platforms, reducing client-side errors by 26%. Integrated third-party credit and identity checks to improve onboarding conversions by 9.6% while retaining transparent decision logs.

Software Engineering Intern · TruliaMay 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos
Software Development Contractor · VokalJun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos
Software Engineering Intern · Chamberlain GroupMay 2018 – Jul 2018 · 3 mos

Education

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2016 – 2020

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