# Justin E. Samuels > Founder-CEO RenderATL, a Inc 5000 company Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/justinesamuels I'm currently a Senior Software Engineer at the industry-leading marketing and e-commerce platform, Mailchimp, where I create unique & engaging interactions for our customers by using React.JS & PHP. I graduated from Mississippi State University on May 9th, 2015, with a Bachelor's of Business Administration with an emphasis in Computer Information Systems. My engineering skills-set is dynamic and continuously changes to reflect the newest trends among my professional colleagues. Some of my skills include (but are not limited to): AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, Laravel PHP, AJAX, JQuery, Material UI, NoSQL, GraphQL, and much more. I also have experience with mobile application development through React-Native & PhoneGap Cordova and am comfortable using either AWS or GCP for my infrastructure needs. My entrepreneurial activities include being the Founder-CEO of 0x42 Software Engineering Solutions. We organize a yearly conference called Render-Atlanta, manage and support a black-owned business resources/B2C web app (Rebuild Black Business), and participate in regular speaking engagements at engineering conferences. Previous examples of my work are available upon request by emailing me at hello@thugdebugger.dev. ## Work Experience ### Founder-CEO @ Render Atlanta Jan 2019 – Present | Atlanta, GA Founded the largest multicultural technology conference that emphasizes on culture being one of the underpinnings of successful technology companies & employee workplace satisfaction. Over 7k attendees per year 2021 Attendance: 350 2022 Attendance: 1,400 at conference & 6,500 at branded social events 2023 Attendance: 3k 2024: 5k 2025 projections: 7k ### Board Member @ Mississippi State University College of Business Jan 2025 – Present | Starkville, Mississippi, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Intuit Jan 2021 – Present | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Part of the acquisition of Mailchimp to Intuit. Senior Software Engineer for the Mailchimp business line on the highly visible Customer Journey Builder & Automations squad. ### Founder & Chairman @ Atlanta Tech Week Jan 2022 – Present | Atlanta, Georgia, United States ### Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Mailchimp Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia React.JS, Webpack, and Node Modules optimizations on the stack for our team Mailchimp & my talents was acquired by Intuit. ### Founder-CEO @ Rebuild Black Business Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Remote * Founded a platform to host resources, and B2C for over 15,000 global black-owned businesses * Helps supervises a team of over 700 volunteers working on our open-source project * Creates the overall vision and direction for the organization as a whole * Hosts a weekly black-owned business documentary series on YouTube and Twitch * Organizes monthly recruiting events with tech partners ### Data Visualization Engineer - Front End Team Lead @ Babel Street Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Remote • Implementing unique visual user-interfaces through React.JS and the JavaScript ecosystem. • Developing C# modules to hydrate the client from specified harvested data-sources. • Coordinates closely with product managers, design teams, and back-end engineers to ensure smooth product delivery; SCRUM Master. ### Software Engineer @ Mississippi State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Starkville, MS • Designed & deployed a full HR & Payroll management system allowing for an improved employee, and assets management resulting in higher employee retention and payroll savings Lead Web Developer and SCRUM Master for the Library at Mississippi State University, where I help oversee the creation, maintenance, and utilization of our websites, databases, cloud based apps, and front/back-end systems. We're a JavaScript developer shop where I employ React for our views, and REDUX for our controller/model, along with other JavaScript based technologies such as Babel for ES6/7 transpiling, WebPack for modulation, and Post-CSS for our website presentations. In addition, we do utilize some BaaS/PaaS tools such as Firebase and Heroku for our deploys, but varies largely depending on the product requirements. Lastly, I facilitate the transition of our older products using ASP, or PHP, to using Express w/ React-Router for back-end systems, or by updating the repository to reflect recent programming practices. ### Web Developer @ Mississippi State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Starkville, MS I'm the primary Web Developer & Designer for my department. I maintain, and upgrade our website which is running on the .NET CMS DotNetNuke. In addition, I build a variety of web applications and portals at the request of faculty and staff using an array of tools, but primarily with the MEAN Stack (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node),Git as our version control, and various other JavaScript libraries/frameworks (such as JQuery, React.js, etc.) depending on the task to be completed. In addition, I design our web presence by using the Adobe Suite (primarily Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects), and with the final implementation done in Bootstrap or custom CSS. I'm the main point of contact for anything web related in the department as well. ### Information Technology Associate @ Mississippi State University Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Starkville, Mississippi - Maintaining, repairing, and, upgrading faculty information technology - Troubleshooting student and faculty information technology related issues ### Front End Web Applications Developer @ Deep South Pout Clothing Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Starkville, Mississippi - Implementing their new e-commerce website to meet their specific needs - Designing and developing a web application for interaction with various Instagram endpoints by using the Instagram API (oAuth), PHP, and CURL. ### Front End and Mobile Applications Developer @ SociallyIN Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Starkville, Mississippi - Developing custom websites for various agency clients dependent upon their needs - Designing & Developing cross platform applications for clients using Phone-Gap Cordova API ### Front End Website Developer (Contractor) @ Richard E Holmes II Veteran's Memorial Foundation Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Columbus, Mississippi - Developed in WordPress their first public website using for outreach in the Golden-Triangle area - Implemented a payment and fundraising SSL portal for fundraising and donations ### Application Developer & SQL Designer (Summer Co-Op) @ Protein Corp Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 - Assisted in constructing a perpetual inventory management system in the cloud with C#/.NET -Implemented a SQL database allowing suppliers and distributors access to real time company inventory data ## Education ### Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Management Information Systems and Services Mississippi State University Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 ### Master of Business Administration - MBA in Data Science Louisiana State University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### College Prep/Vocational Tech (Dual Degree) in College/University Preparatory and Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program Henry County High School Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinsamuels --- Source: https://flows.cv/justinesamuels JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/justinesamuels/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22