Caleb Johnston
Firmware Engineering Manager at Block
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCaleb Johnston is a firmware engineering manager and seasoned technologist with 12 years of experience leading software and firmware teams across startups, agencies, and enterprises from New York. He currently manages firmware engineering at Block while also advising and scaling teams through his Principal role at Determinant Consulting, bringing a rare mix of hands-on C++/OpenGL systems work and people-first leadership. Caleb has led product and platform launches at scale—co-leading LinkNYC and guiding Looking Glass’s software for next-generation 3D displays—demonstrating comfort across embedded firmware, graphics, and cloud-backed services. He’s equally at home bootstrapping experimental computer-vision frameworks and stabilizing long-lived production systems, making him a pragmatic architect who bridges creative product needs with operational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBS Computer Graphics Technology, BS Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University
Github Skills (20)
nurbs9
bspline9
cinder7
patch5
looking-glass4
internals4
c-library3
hardware3
portability2
cpp2
quicktime2
avfoundation2
api2
webxr1
vulkan1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
calebjohnston/automaton
Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
A self-operating machine
Contributions:6 PRs, 46 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 8 months
calebjohnston/Cinder-SplinePatch
Aug 2013 - Feb 2021
BSpline patch and NURBS patch support for Cinder v0.8.5
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 7 years 8 months
cinderpatchbsplinenurbs
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