Justin Badilla

Justin Badilla

Software engineer

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About

Justin Badilla is a software engineer who builds projects for music and games.

Justin works at the front desk at Frontier Tower and writes about software projects and entering the tech industry.

Experience

  • Frontier TowerFront desk

At a glance

  • Built Guitar App for guitarists

  • Built Tank Game, a multiplayer arena shooter

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Work

justinbadilla.xyz · 2026-11-05

  • Justin is a software engineer.

justinbadilla.substack.com · 2026-11-05

  • Justin works at the front desk at Frontier Tower.

Projects

justinbadilla.xyz · 2026-11-05

  • Guitar App is a full-stack web application for exploring chords, experimenting with tunings and organizing songs.
  • Tank Game is a local multiplayer arena shooter with destructible environments and multiple maps.
  • Justin's school projects include a full-stack e-commerce site, a live chat client with a REST API, and a BST and hash cache management system.
  • Tank Game is a two-player game.

justinbadilla.substack.com · 2026-11-05

  • Guitar App includes an interactive fretboard, chord analyzer and songwriting tool.
  • Justin built Guitar App with React, TypeScript and Java Spring Boot.
  • Guitar App was deployed using Vercel, Neon and Render.
  • Justin finished Tank Game from a software developer class using Java and LibGDX.
  • Justin built a portfolio site with HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
  • Justin plans an AI project exploring evaluation, RAG, vector stores and embeddings.

Writing

  • Justin wrote 'Breaking into the Industry Really is Hard...' about entering tech and lessons from recent projects.

Education

justinbadilla.substack.com · 2026-11-05

  • Justin studied computer science.

Interests

justinbadilla.xyz · 2026-11-05

  • Justin enjoys making music, playing guitar and exploring the wilderness.

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