Corey Johnson
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San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Johnson is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building products from game consoles to consumer apps, including a long stint at GitHub where he prototyped and shipped core features. He combines systems-level back-end expertise (notably contributing GraphQL-driven features to the GitHub CLI) with full-stack work on desktop tooling like GitHub Desktop and deep runtime work on projects such as the Wax Objective-C/Lua bridge. An early engineer at StreetEasy and a prolific iOS consultant, he has a track record of launching products that attracted major visibility and acquisition. Based in San Francisco and trained at the University of Michigan, he prefers to keep a low public profile but consistently contributes to high-impact open source and production code.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, magna cum laude at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (29)
git10
objective-c10
javascript10
github10
electron10
apidoc10
typescript10
github-desktop10
wpgraphql10
lua10
go10
api10
github-api10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
probablycorey/wax
Jun 2009 - Feb 2011
Wax is now being maintained by alibaba
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:392 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the underlying object-c framework, Wax, used for building applications. Their work involved adding core functionalities, such as providing support for structs, the ability to call methods on objects, and integrating with the system garbage collector. They were focused on expanding Wax's capabilities through various enhancements to its API, and improved functionality for object interoperability between the Lua and Objective-C environments.
alibabawax
cli/cli
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
GitHub’s official command line tool
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:400 commits, 42 PRs, 122 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Corey primarily contributed to the core functionality of the GitHub CLI tool. Their work involved implementing GraphQL functions for data retrieval from the GitHub API, particularly focusing on querying for pull requests and related information. They refactored the code by pulling out queries into separate files, improving the organization of the project. Additionally, they added debug output functionality, suggesting active involvement in development and troubleshooting.
golangcommand-line-toolgocommand-linecli
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