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Justin Larsen

Head of Technology - Consumer Brands, IoT & Enterprise AI

  1. 6Years

    Traeger Grills

    Head of Technology

    • Implemented agentic development across 30+ stacks
    • Enabled AI adoption across the organization by creating data warehouse connectors and plugin marketplaces for Claude.
    • Reduced cost of inherited cloud services by over 50% while driving 8x improvement in response time for all APIs.
    • Rebuilt poorly performing app reputation from 2.4 stars to 4.8 in six months.
    • Developed a versatile team that has continuously improved its satisfaction rating while adapting to multiple RIFs.
  2. 22Months

    Strala

    VP of Engineering

    • Acted as the ambassador from the engineering team to executive leadership.
    • Architected a cost-effective high volume eventing platform using containerized workloads and DynamoDB.
    • Built an ETL harness for 3rd party integrations in python with the serverless framework.
  3. 5Years

    Align B.I.

    Senior Consultant

    • Managed internal developer workload and external client expectations across many concurrent engagements.
    • Built and licensed an ML classifier for standardizing medication names across veterinary hospitals.
    • Deployed on-prem and AWS hosted data warehouses for multiple successful Utah startups.
    • Meticulously planned and performed zero downtime db migrations for financial systems.
  4. 18Months

    Alliance Health

    Lead BI Engineer

    • Built a data warehouse that standardized schemas for 50+ disparate rails apps.
    • Managed ParAccel MPP dbms (Redshift) including hardware and DR strategy.
    • Developed HIPAA compliant ETL tools for processing aggregations on datasets approaching 1 billion rows.
  5. 13Months

    Mozy (VMware)

    Senior Architect

    • Created a data warehouse that aggregated everything from data center hardware to CRM data and product usage stats.
    • Implemented a comprehensive MTTF reporting suite for minimizing drive spend.
  6. 7Years

    Ancestry.com

    DB Optimization Team Lead

    • Designed partitioning and indexing scheme that scaled to 500 billion rows on a reporting table in the age of monolithic databases (SQL Server).
    • Performed query optimization, index tuning, and table management for constantly shifting workloads.
    • Developed ETL for nightly and intraday processing.