I’m Justin White — a technical project manager, systems builder, student at SNHU, and founder working on software products and R&D at Koda.
My work spans project management, software engineering, and product development. I enjoy taking an idea from an early technical concept through planning, implementation, and eventually something that can be used in production.
What I do
- Technical project management — leading software R&D, planning sprints, defining requirements and release criteria, and coordinating engineering work from idea to production
- Systems & product strategy — exploring the tradeoffs between performance, complexity, cost, and developer experience when designing software systems
- Software R&D — building and experimenting with search, content intelligence, developer tooling, and infrastructure through Koda
- Product engineering — working across TypeScript, Python, SQL, APIs, databases, and modern web infrastructure to turn research into usable software
- Writing — documenting the ideas, experiments, and design decisions behind the systems I build
Koda
I’m the founder and technical project lead at Koda, where we run open-ended software R&D and turn successful experiments into production products.
One of those experiments is Glyph, an open-source content intelligence toolkit for fast fuzzy search and similarity matching. Glyph explores how far compact fingerprints, approximate comparison, aggregation, and locality-sensitive search can be pushed without relying on vector databases or large models.
That research is also informing Atlas, Koda’s commercial search product. Atlas takes the same underlying ideas further with database-side filtering, LSH indexing, and a lower-level search architecture designed around extremely low query latency and minimal content storage.
The interesting part isn’t just making these systems fast. It’s figuring out which complexity belongs in the infrastructure and which complexity developers should never have to think about.
Background
I’m studying Computer Science at Southern New Hampshire University, with a focus on software engineering, systems, and the practical side of building software.
Before Koda, I worked as a freelance web developer and held technical leadership and project-management responsibilities at Sparkade. Those experiences shaped much of how I approach software development today, particularly around planning, coordination, and building processes that work for small engineering teams.
Reach me at hmu@justinwhite.work, or explore more of my work on GitHub.