Anders Johnson
Principal Engineer at Target
Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnders Johnson is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years of full‑stack experience leading architecture, performance, and developer experience improvements for Target.com’s top‑of‑funnel web systems. He blends hands‑on TypeScript/React/Next.js work with cross‑functional strategy—migrating monoliths to monorepos, re-architecting product data flows, and enabling server‑side rendering and edge compute for measurable revenue gains. Anders is known for making complex systems approachable—driving incremental adoption of new patterns while keeping live services stable and performant—and for creating tooling and workflows adopted broadly across teams. He is an active open‑source contributor with popular GitHub projects and a track record of shipping large rewrites (Backbone→React, Redux→react‑query) that materially improve developer velocity. Based in Minnetonka, MN, he pairs an analytical, strategic mindset with a hands‑on focus on code quality, mentoring, and operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of Minnesota
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jonschlinkert/sync-pkg
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:24 commits in 9 days
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