Joe Johnston
Founder at Crowdlift
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Johnston is a seasoned software entrepreneur and growth-focused founder based in San Francisco with 14+ years of building and scaling startups. He currently leads Crowdlift as CEO/Founder and runs Muxxi, focusing on marketing automation for coaches and therapists. Earlier in his career he co-founded multiple ventures including Connect.Me/Respect Network as CTO and Loop, Popcast, and SpookTech. He is the author of Docker in Production and Lessons from the Trenches, showcasing practical guidance on shipping robust software. As an advisor, he helps startups with growth hacking, automation, go-to-market, and customer acquisition strategies, and is a frequent speaker at events such as the Future of Money and Technology Summit. Blending hands-on engineering with entrepreneurship and education, he turns ambitious ideas into viable businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at The Ohio State UniversityRapid Transformational Therapy
Github Skills (174)
azure-functions10
serverless10
serverless-applications10
lambda10
aws-lambda10
aws-sam10
serverless-framework10
aws-dynamodb10
sam10
aws10
monitoring9
cli9
scriptable9
azure9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LLemonStack/llemonstack
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:167 pushes, 4 branches, 3 comments in 29 days
getstacker/stacker
Nov 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:95 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 months
devopstemplatingdockerconfigextensible
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