Brandon Johnson
West Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrandon Johnson is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and scaling distributed, cloud-native systems across fintech, blockchain, health-tech, and high-throughput real-time platforms. He’s built fault-tolerant payment orchestration for moving millions daily, led engineering and cultural improvements at fast-paced Web3 incubators, and implemented NFT and IPFS-backed services alongside smart contract integrations. Comfortable across Go, Python, C#, and full-stack technologies, he also architects infrastructure for Kubernetes, GCP/AWS, observability, and secure production environments (SOC2/PCI contexts). His background includes co-founding SaaS and agency ventures, leading teams that processed billions of messages per day, and contributing algorithm implementations and tests to the popular TheAlgorithms/PHP open-source repo. Based in West Jordan, Utah, Brandon blends hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring, and pragmatic operational rigor to move complex products from prototype to scale. A former accounting major turned systems architect, he brings a rare mix of business-minded engineering and deep operational experience.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
algorithm10
crypt10
data-structures10
php10
binary-search10
data-structure10
testing10
recursion9
htaccess6
dynamic-typing6
ajax6
type-conversion6
javascript6
jmespath6
jquery6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
TheAlgorithms/PHP
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
All Algorithms implemented in PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:308 reviews, 65 commits, 134 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the implementation of algorithms and data structures in PHP, as indicated by the commit messages and code changes. They implemented binary search (iterative and recursive) and various ciphers like Caesar, XOR, and Morse code. The user also added tests for the implemented algorithms and made code style updates for consistency. Further work included the addition of conversions between number bases.
phpdata-structures
darwinz/gatsby
Oct 2020 - Feb 2026
Build blazing fast, modern apps and websites with React
Contributions:5 pushes in 5 years 5 months
reactblazing-fastblazing
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