Engineering leader · Full-stack · AI practitioner
Full-stack engineering leader.
AI as a force-multiplier.
Shipping healthcare software at scale, and prototyping the next generation of agent-driven developer tooling.
About
I build for humans — and increasingly, for agents.
I'm Justin Reda, a software engineering leader based in the New York area. By day I lead a team at Teladoc Health, working with partners to make their integration dreams come true. Previously, I led a team that owned mobile platform releases and cut our consumer app crash rate from roughly 1.45% to under 0.07% and brought full regression testing down from 14 hours to 25 minutes — across a portfolio of more than 100 consumer apps, private labels, and SDKs.
After hours I build the tools I wish existed. Most of my recent work sits around the Aurora Core design system and the applications that adopt it — Aurora Pad, Aurora Explorer, and Chaos Control — plus AI-ACP, a local-first agent coordination platform that lets Claude Code and Codex CLI share real work in one queue.
I'm an enthusiastic practical AI user. I treat modern coding agents as a force-multiplier: they let a single engineer design and ship production-quality software that would have taken a whole team five years ago. I stay current on the frontier models, integrate them into real engineering workflows, and advocate for responsible adoption that raises quality rather than replacing judgment.
Featured Work
Selected projects

Aurora Core
LivingA foundation kit for the systems I build after hours.
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript
- Python
- FastMCP
- Tokens Studio

Aurora Pad
BetaA native code editor that feels familiar, stays fast, and honors a design system.
- Rust
- Tauri v2
- Svelte 5
- TypeScript
- CodeMirror 6

Aurora Explorer
BetaA cross-platform file explorer that replaces the OS defaults with something I actually enjoy using.
- Rust
- Tauri v2
- Svelte 5
- Tantivy
- git2
- portable-pty

Chaos Control
BetaOne dashboard for Claude Code and Codex CLI: configs, skills, agents, and MCP servers in sync.
- Rust
- Tauri v2
- Svelte 5
- TypeScript

AI-ACP
LivingCoordinate long-running agent work while you sleep. One shared queue of real work for Claude, Codex, and any MCP-aware agent.
- Python
- FastAPI
- MCP
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Keycloak

Aurora Visualizer
ShippedA GPU music visualizer with 21 WebGL2 scenes that move with whatever is playing, plus a live demo that runs right in your browser.
- Rust
- Tauri v2
- Svelte 5
- WebGL2
- TypeScript
- Web Audio

Rust Game Engine
In developmentA deterministic, headless-first Rust game engine with destructible voxel worlds and an AI-first control API, and the Command & Conquer style 3D RTS being built on top of it.
- Rust
- wgpu
- rapier3d
- axum
- Blender
- MagicaVoxel

Small Riches
In developmentFactorio at backyard scale: a tiny engineer, one impossible scale core, and a factory built from found junk.
- Rust
- wgpu
- Blender
- rodio

Some Strange Day
BetaA browser comedy RPG about IT support, a suspiciously helpful corporate AI, and a performance review on Friday.
- JavaScript
- Canvas 2D
- Vite
- Vitest

Aurora Weather
ShippedA keyless, zero-config weather dashboard in the Aurora aesthetic, live at weather.justinreda.com.
- Next.js 16
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Open-Meteo

Network Messages
ShippedA LAN clipboard for humans that doubles as a message bus for AI agents. One URL, every machine sees the same board.
- Python
- FastAPI
- WebSockets
- Docker

Production Support
In developmentBug Squasher: a top-down incident-response roguelite where software engineers auto-battle the bugs in a tech-debt-infested codebase.
- Java
- LWJGL
- OpenGL
- OpenAL
- GLFW
- Gson

CardGen
BetaA printable greeting-card studio: a six-step wizard that turns art, message, and style into a fold-ready PDF, entirely in the browser.
- TypeScript
- SvelteKit
- Svelte
- pdf-lib
- Tailwind
- IndexedDB

Pal Breed Chart
ShippedA Palworld breeding calculator: one Rust engine shipped as a CLI, a WebAssembly web app, and native desktop and mobile shells.
- Rust
- WebAssembly
- SvelteKit
- Tauri v2
- TypeScript

Palworld GM Lab
LivingA dockerized Palworld dedicated server with a WoW-style game-master portal: spawn items, grant coins, teleport, paradise on demand.
- Docker
- Wine
- UE4SS
- Lua
- Python
- TypeScript

All Da Power
BetaA Factorio power-generation mod with one rule: every building is passive. No fuel, no fluids, no babysitting.
- Lua
- Python

Quality Casino
ShippedA Factorio casino district where you gamble item quality: slot machines, a Grand Casino, an All-In Table, a progressive jackpot, and circuit-wired stop-loss. Live on the mod portal.
- Lua
- Python
- PowerShell

AIUI
In developmentA self-owned Starfield interface suite, rebuilding an abandoned community UI stack as one maintainable mod.
- ActionScript 3
- Scaleform
- PowerShell

Card Collector
In developmentA collectible trading-card game layered into Starfield: booster packs, rarity pulls, loot drops, and a binder to fill.
- C#
- Papyrus
- Python
- PowerShell

Reda IDE
BetaA lightweight desktop IDE built to replace Cursor and VS Code for daily editing: fast startup and a tiny footprint, with no AI chat, no extension host, and no telemetry.
- Rust
- Tauri v2
- Svelte 5
- CodeMirror 6
- TypeScript

Wear OS Watch Faces
ShippedThree original Wear OS watch faces: a diamond-set gold dress piece and two ornate brass instruments, shipped as resource-only packages with no runtime code at all.
- Watch Face Format
- XML
- Python
- Pillow
- Gradle
Experience
Where I've been
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Software Engineering Manager
Feb 2023 — PresentTeladoc Health · New York, NY
- Production support and release manager for 100+ consumer-facing iOS/Android apps, private labels, and SDKs from 100 to 5M downloads
- Led the crash-rate reduction from ~1.45% to <0.07% and held it there for two years
- Reduced mobile regression testing from 14 hours to 25 minutes with comparable accuracy
- Redefined the mobile error and logging system for debuggability, automation, and AI tooling
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Senior Mobile Engineer
Feb 2019 — Feb 2023Teladoc Health · New York, NY
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Mobile Application Developer
Jul 2015 — Feb 2019Teladoc Health · New York, NY
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Lead Android Developer
Apr 2014 — Jul 2015GT Network · Jersey City, NJ
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Software Engineer / Team Lead
May 2011 — Apr 2014Rowan University Center for Sustainable Design · Glassboro, NJ
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Lead Android Developer
Jun 2012 — Jan 2013HealthMob, Inc. · Cambridge, MA
Skills
What I work in
Languages
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Python
- Java
- Kotlin
- Swift
- Objective-C
- C#
- C / C++
- SQL
Platforms & Runtimes
- SvelteKit
- Svelte 5
- Tauri v2
- Node
- FastAPI
- LWJGL / OpenGL
- Android native
- iOS native
- wgpu
AI & Tooling
- Claude Code
- Codex CLI
- MCP server design
- Agent orchestration
- Prompt engineering
- Agent coordination (ACP)
Systems & Practice
- Design systems (Aurora Core)
- Mobile crash analytics
- Release management
- OpenTelemetry
- Docker
- CI/CD governance
- Cross-functional leadership