Chris Johnson
Creative Writer
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Johnson is a versatile software engineer and creative writer with 12 years of professional experience and a background stretching back to founding and exiting an ISP. He blends full-stack web expertise—PHP (CodeIgniter, Laravel), MySQL, Docker, Redis, and modern JS frameworks—with a knack for data integrity in regulated domains like healthcare and mortgage lending. As a senior developer and problem solver, he has built and managed complex systems for DoD-linked communities, startups, and enterprise clients, often owning tooling, deployment, and architecture choices. More recently he’s returned to creative pursuits as an award-winning poet and published speculative fiction and non-fiction author, bringing narrative clarity to technical problems. Based in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, Chris pairs entrepreneurial grit (a prior $22M exit) with craftsmanship in both code and prose. A curious generalist, he’s comfortable shipping pragmatic solutions across the stack while exploring literary projects under the handle @cxj.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Colorado State University
English, German
Github Skills (50)
injection10
ioc-container10
psr-1110
guice10
di-container10
dependency-injection10
testing9
factories9
static-analyzer9
php9
pdo9
phpstan8
authenticator8
security8
static-analysis8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cj-clx/Aura.Di
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Dependency Injection System
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
injectiondependency-injection
ClaimLynx/Transphporm
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Transformation Style Sheets - Revolutionising PHP templating
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
transformationtemplatingphpstyle-sheetssheets
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