Dax Johnson
Lead Engineer at Target
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDax Johnson is a Lead Engineer with over 8 years of experience designing and operating enterprise CI/CD and infrastructure automation at scale, currently driving platform reliability for Target’s on-prem GitHub Enterprise, Vela, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Artifactory, and Chef services. He blends deep security and process discipline (CISSP, Control-M expertise, ITIL/Six Sigma) with hands-on infrastructure-as-code and Linux/UNIX skills to deliver repeatable, auditable automation across Dev and Prod. Known for partnering closely with security teams and providing mentorship, he focuses on operational excellence and pragmatic IaaS guidance that reduces risk while accelerating delivery. A pragmatic systems thinker, he has repeatedly owned workload automation platforms across large enterprises and academia, bringing rare cross-domain experience from batch schedulers to modern container orchestration.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Century CollegeITSqc eSCM-CL, Sourcing Capability Model, Certified, ITSqc eSCM-CL, Sourcing Capability Model, Certified at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (68)
google-chat10
plugin10
elm9
graphic9
chatops9
application9
telegram9
emulation9
discord9
wiiu9
nintendo-3ds9
chatbot8
cisco8
yaml8
pipeline8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
delta592/insomnia
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets and gRPC.
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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