Ben Johnson
VP Of Product at Fly.io
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Johnson is a VP of Product and open-source software developer with 16 years of experience building storage systems, databases, and distributed systems. He is the author of BoltDB — an influential embedded key/value store used by projects like etcd and Consul — and has deep hands-on expertise implementing core database primitives, replication, and Raft-based consensus. At Fly.io he transitioned from staff engineer building Litestream and SQLite replication tooling to product leadership, marrying systems-level engineering with product strategy for globally distributed hosting. His contributions to major projects like InfluxDB, Flux, bbolt, and LiteFS show a pattern of tackling low-level data integrity, performance, and replication challenges. Colocated in Littleton, Colorado, he combines a developer-first mindset with the ability to ship production-grade distributed storage features at scale.
16 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (76)
testing10
fuse10
databases10
pager10
rest-api10
concurrency10
javascript10
data-processing10
management10
protobuf10
database10
api-rest10
sqlite10
api-design10
storage10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
superfly/litefs
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 24 reviews, 226 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focus on refactoring and implementing core functionality for a FUSE-based file system designed to replicate SQLite databases. They have made changes across multiple files, including server.go, file_handle.go, node.go, db.go, cmd/litefs/main.go, and go.mod, indicating work on the core components of the system. Their contributions include improvements to loopback functionality, management of database handling, and incorporating features for handling data with a primary server using a streaming http endpoint.
filesystemsqlite-databasesqlite
benbjohnson/clock
Aug 2014 - Feb 2021
Clock is a small library for mocking time in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 releases, 21 commits, 17 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `clock` library. Their work involved implementing and testing core functionalities such as `After`, `AfterFunc`, `Sleep`, `Tick`, and `Ticker` for both real-time and mock clock implementations. The user also added examples and refactored the code to use time waits in tests and replaced default select with timer for increased stability.
gomocking
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