Alexander Johnston
Senior Software Engineer at Corro
Woodend, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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SeniorAlexander Johnston is a Senior Software Engineer based in Woodend, New Zealand, with eight years of hands-on experience building cloud-native systems and leading engineering teams. He has driven authentication and identity work at Xero, architected AWS-first services in Scala and Go at Fleetpin, and continues to shape platform engineering at Corro. Comfortable across C#, TypeScript/React, Scala, Go, Java/Kotlin and Terraform, he pairs deep technical breadth with a penchant for improving team practices and delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who codes to preempt problems, spreading his enthusiasm for elegant solutions beyond immediate requirements. Notably, he has shifted between leading teams and hands-on implementation, showing both technical leadership and sustained commitment to craftsmanship.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (33)
scalatags9
kotlin8
java8
gradle8
scala-rx7
groovy7
cli-application6
python6
dynamodb5
http-server5
scala5
cargo4
sbt4
lambda4
aws-lambda4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Aliics/ezcli
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
Easy CLI crate for Rust
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 6 months
easy-clicraterustcargorust-lang
Aliics/mouse
Oct 2023 - Nov 2024
Small, simple, minimal HTTP library written in Scala.
Contributions:10 PRs, 73 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 1 month
http-clienthttp-serverossscala
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