David Johnson
Software Engineering Manager, Safari Extensions at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Johnson is a product-minded software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building native and web applications across startups and enterprise organizations. Currently leading Safari Extensions at Apple, he combines hands-on mobile and web engineering with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and scaling teams through greenfield development to long-term maintenance. His work has produced over a dozen consumer-facing apps used by millions on iOS, Android, and the web, and he has driven projects that exceeded revenue expectations by more than 500% in their first year. Comfortable across the stack, David has shipped navigation APIs, deep linking, push platforms, BLE device integrations, and scalable microservice architectures. He brings a practical product focus to technical decisions, advocating for developer-friendly codebases and measurable business outcomes. Based in San Diego, he pairs design sensibility from an AAS in Graphic Design with robust engineering instincts shaped at companies from tiny startups to Apple.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
HL Computer Science HL Mathematics Physics, HL Computer Science HL Mathematics Physics at International BaccalaureateInternational Baccalaureate Diploma HL Computer Science Mathematics and Physics, International Baccalaureate Diploma HL Computer Science Mathematics and Physics at Rufus King High SchoolAAS Graphic Design Digital Design (Web Mobile etc) Print Design Video Production, AAS Graphic Design Digital Design (Web Mobile etc) Print Design Video Production at Robert Morris University - Illinois
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
ios10
safari10
linux10
browser10
webkit10
gtk10
macos10
passwords9
password-generator9
webextension8
password-manager8
firefox7
remote-control4
introspection3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
davidjohnson91/fetchable
Apr 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
davidjohnson91/davidjohnson91.github.io
Mar 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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