Justin Flanders
Technical Product Engineer
Technically minded product engineer who ships cloud platforms and reusable architecture alongside the teams that build them. Background in computational simulation, full-stack development, and agentic workflow design. Balances short-term prototyping with core delivery so iteration produces technology that later releases can reuse — not throw away.
Experience
Senior Director of Technical Product Management
Dec 2023 – Jul 2026
FIS · Jacksonville, FL
- Owned product roadmaps and Copilot enablement while shipping CLI scaffolding and automated testing standards across engineering teams.
Backend Developer (Part-Time Internship)
Sep 2023 – Dec 2023
Oppity
- Built TypeScript REST APIs and introduced Jest testing plus shared debug tooling for the engineering team.
Director of Product Management
Dec 2021 – Sep 2023
Aetna (CVS Health) · Denver, CO
- Owned provider-search product delivery for 14M members while improving architecture and delivery flow enough to roughly double team velocity.
Technical Product Owner / Product Manager
Apr 2016 – Nov 2021
Aetna (CVS Health) · Denver, CO
- Migrated more than 10M members onto the Aetna Health member portal.
Solution Architect & Product Owner
Dec 2012 – Apr 2016
Accenture · Pittsburgh, PA
- Delivered healthcare migrations and member-portal releases, including a 5M-member platform move and a recovery to on-time launch.
Graduate Research Engineer
Jun 2010 – Sep 2012
The Ohio State University · Nuclear Engineering
- Conducted CFD heat-exchanger analysis, validating models across 10 dimensionless parameters to optimize geometric design.
Selected Projects
Jean ClaudeNode.js · Docker · Anthropic API · local LLMs
- Agentic routing microservice that dispatches prompts across personality-tuned sub-agents, local Docker-hosted models, and frontier API escalation.
- Replaced predefined agent configs with folder-based routing and dynamically generated startup prompts.
- Includes procedural + agentic code review to enforce team working agreements.
Dotfiles + Component PlatformTurborepo · React · TypeScript · GitHub Actions · CLI
- Turborepo standards platform with vendored React components, CI enforcement, and generators that bake conventions into new repos.
Risk Engine (3 iterations)Node.js · React · WebSockets · SSE · Hex grid
- Server-authoritative game engine evolved through polling, WebSockets, and hex maps to isolate architectural constraints.
Flanders Brothers Maple SyrupReact · Node.js · Square API · Postgres
- Full-stack e-commerce site with Square-integrated checkout, inventory sync, and order management — production system for a real small business.
Technical Skills
TypeScriptNode.jsPythonSQL / PostgresSQLiteJest / VitestTurborepoWebSockets / SSEAgentic workflowsLocal LLMsAWSProvider search APIsCFD / numerical methodsAutomated testingReactDockerGitHub ActionsREST APIsRapid prototyping
Education
M.S. Nuclear Engineering
The Ohio State University
Magna Cum Laude · Heat transfer · fluid dynamics · computational simulation
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Magna Cum Laude
Also Notable
Site Reliability
- On-prem and cloud system management across production environments.
- Uptime, observability, and incident response.
Code Generation / Turbogen
- Scaffolding generators for new repositories and agent workflows.
- Reduces token expenditure in agentic coding loops.
Nuclear instrumentation
- Radiation-detection lab work: gas-filled, semiconductor, scintillation, and HPGe detectors; gamma spectrometry; reactor-lab methods.