Craig Johnston
Platform Architect
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCraig Johnston is a Platform Architect in Los Angeles with over a decade of experience leading cross-disciplinary engineering teams to build cloud-native platforms, CMS/POS integrations, AIML workflows, IoT pipelines, and ETL systems. He combines hands-on development and DevOps chops—evidenced by meaningful contributions to kubefwd that improve multi-namespace port-forwarding and /etc/hosts handling—with an operator’s eye for developer experience. As a former VP of Development and senior R&D leader at music-tech firms, he pairs product sensibility with deep systems know-how, enabling data scientists and GPU workflows to move from prototype to production. Continuously learning (AI Programming with Python Nanodegree), he’s equally at home authoring tools, exploiting GPU capabilities, and architecting platforms that bridge creative and technical disciplines.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
AI Programming with Python Nanodegree Program, Artificial Intelligence, AI Programming with Python Nanodegree Program, Artificial Intelligence at Udacity
English
Stackoverflow
156reputation
5kreached
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
devops10
command-line-interface9
networking9
command-line9
cli9
jquery-selectors6
data-structures6
database6
sql6
android6
iphone6
tree6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
txn2/kubefwd
Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Bulk port forwarding Kubernetes services for local development.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:58 releases, 2 reviews, 220 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Craig's commits primarily focus on enhancing the kubefwd utility. Their contributions include adding features such as root privilege checks, improved version messages, and additional help messages within the command-line interface. The user also introduced a multi-namespace port forwarding capability and made improvements to host file management, emphasizing the tool's functionality related to Kubernetes service exposure for local development and addressing /etc/hosts interaction. These changes improve the user experience and adds capabilities to the core functionality.
golanglocal-developmentproxydevopsport-forwarding
apk8s/k3s-gitlab
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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