Summary
Blaed Johnston is a software developer with 13 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web and backend systems, now contributing at 1Password after a seven-year engineering tenure at Kolide. He brings full-stack fluency—Java, C#, JavaScript, HTML/CSS—and a track record of improving performance, usability, and business process automation across startups and enterprise environments. Blaed has led and mentored teams, coordinating a cohort of 12 interns as a lead developer and consistently shipping feature work and bug fixes. Based in Duluth, MN, he pairs practical finance and operations experience from earlier accounting work with technical rigor from a Computer Science degree at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Colleagues appreciate his blend of mentorship, reliability, and a pragmatic focus on measurable product improvements.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Minnesota Duluth
Lake Superior College
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