Cole Johnson
Co-Founder & Head Of Engineering at Runway
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCole Johnson is a product-focused CTO and co-founder with a decade of software engineering experience building user-centric platforms and developer-facing systems. As CTO of Runway he scaled an AI-driven career platform to 35k+ users and a 75k+ community within months, turning early-career placement into a data-informed product. He previously shipped core admin and UI systems at Slack—earning a U.S. patent for SSO-driven group management—and led large React migrations and role-based admin tooling. Comfortable across front-end and backend domains, he pairs startup grit (he founded a restaurant) with academic roots as a Purdue CS lecturer, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering, product intuition, and people-focused leadership.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Purdue UniversityThe Lovett School
Github Skills (32)
usb8
rdma7
web-application7
react7
slack6
node-app6
frontend5
vue5
sms5
javascript5
webapp4
expressjs4
typescript4
facebook4
django4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
turnipapp/turnip-frontend
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:94 PRs, 90 pushes, 42 branches in 3 months
social-networkeventsangular-appangulartypescript
colejoh/bluebot
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 21 days
chatbotchatbot-facebookfacebook
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