Chris Johnson
Head Of Engineering at Bravely
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Johnson is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and scaling product and platform teams, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Bravely in Charleston. He has a track record of turning operational challenges into measurable outcomes—reducing hiring cycle times, doubling customer bookings, and driving massive email throughput growth at Tumblr. Comfortable spanning full-stack systems from Rails to mobile and backend infrastructure, Chris excels at hiring, process design, and metric-driven roadmaps that align engineering with business goals. He began his career in high-traffic web operations and video delivery, which informs a pragmatic approach to reliability and cost-effective architecture. Known for coaching teams through growth phases, he combines hands-on technical credibility with a focus on people and scalable practices.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (3)
policies5
tumblr4
ruby2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chrismjohnson/resume
Oct 2012 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 10 months
chrismjohnson/checkr-ruby
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
checkrruby-bindingsruby
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