Justin Abrahms

Justin Abrahms

I build systems that make software engineers more effective. The tools change; the problem doesn't.

Live projects

What I'm thinking about

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Engineering Productivity

What actually makes an engineer faster? A framework for thinking about friction, leverage, feedback, and confidence in software production.

In developmentUpdates soon
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Agentic Software Engineering

What changes when implementation becomes cheap? Experiments and observations from building increasingly autonomous software-development workflows.

Reliability, platforms, developer experience, automation, quality systems, and now agents are all parts of the same work: increasing the productive capacity of software engineers. These selected career chapters explore that question at a different scale.

Build software at global scale

Web Developer / Software Engineer · Huge, Invite Media, Google

At Google, I learned distributed systems—and respect for code as a craft: the disciplined engineering that makes complex systems dependable over time.

Learn software delivery and lead a team

Early Employee / Director of Engineering · Sprint.ly, Quick Left

Making a small software team work together: flow, delivery, and a front-row education in the economics and tradeoffs of running a startup business.

Make production systems reliable at scale

Software Development Engineer · Amazon

From initial commit to re:Invent launch, built AWS MediaStore: a live-video system handling 10K TPS that streamed the Super Bowl.

Make large systems changeable

Principal Engineer · Walmart

Merged Walmart and Jet's mobile stacks by putting two enormous backend-for-frontend systems behind GraphQL—a difficult architectural unification that made one app possible.

Make engineering organizations measurable

Principal Member of Technical Staff, Architect & OSPO Chair · eBay

Modernized delivery in payments: sixfold more deploys, with 72% of applications (934 of 1,301) deploying automatically after merge.

Encode good engineering practice into the platform

Principal Engineer, Developer Productivity · Thrive Market

Built Trellis, a self-service Kubernetes/GitOps platform that teams began requesting within two months—then used that foundation to nearly double throughput.

Make software production abundant — and measurable

Principal Engineer · Parloa

Investigating how agents change software delivery, and what sensors let us assess the quality of what they produce.