Adam Johnson
Software Engineer at Django Software Foundation
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAdam Johnson is a London-based software engineer with 12 years’ experience specializing in Python, Django, DevOps, and AWS, who runs his own consulting and training practice. He is a prolific open-source maintainer and Django core contributor, credited for tools like django-upgrade that automate code modernization and numerous fixes across Django, django-rest-framework, and pytest. A former DevOps lead at Time Out and Head of DevOps at Genus AI, he blends backend development with operational excellence and cloud automation. Adam is a published author of four books on Django, Git, and GitHub and co-organizes Django London, reflecting his commitment to community and developer education. He has a track record of improving performance and compatibility in high-profile projects (e.g., optimizing MySQL JSON handling and SQL generation in Django) and often contributes both code and documentation. An Imperial College graduate, he brings pragmatic engineering, strong testing practices, and a knack for automating tedious migrations and compatibility work.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
First with Honours, Computing, First with Honours, Computing at Imperial College LondonPate's Grammar School
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Github Skills (90)
python10
testing10
databases10
websocket10
htmx10
templater10
asgi10
linter10
rest-api10
ansible-galaxy10
recaptcha10
javascript10
django10
mypy10
api10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
adamchainz/django-cors-headers
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Django app for handling the server headers required for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 426 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the Django-based back-end of the project. Their commits demonstrate work related to testing, including removing and fixing test settings, as well as adding new tests. The user also implemented versioning updates and made changes to the project's documentation. The user’s contributions primarily focused on the core Django functionality of the project.
corsdjango
adamchainz/django-upgrade
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Automatically upgrade your Django projects.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:125 reviews, 231 commits, 698 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the `django-upgrade` project, which automatically upgrades Django projects. Their commits focused on creating and improving fixers, which are specific code transformations to modernize Django code. The user implemented fixers for various deprecated features, including changes to ``django.utils.encoding``, admin decorators, and more. They also ensured test coverage for the implemented fixers.
django-projectdjango
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