Deron Johnson
AVP, Internal Audit - Head Of Technology Audit at Pacific Life
Town of Webster, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDeron Johnson is an experienced technology audit and risk executive with over 20 years in assurance and a decade in senior IT audit and security leadership roles across financial and payroll services. Currently AVP and Head of Technology Audit at Pacific Life, he has progressed from technical production analyst roles to strategic director-level positions, blending hands-on IT knowledge with governance, risk, and compliance expertise. He led cross-functional teams at Paychex in security engineering, enterprise GRC, and data science, delivering measurable improvements in controls and risk posture. An RIT-trained technologist with an MBA, Deron also contributes to open-source documentation UX—improving usability and developer experience for widely used projects like CockroachDB docs—showing a pragmatic eye for both controls and user-facing detail. He is based in Webster, NY and known for translating complex technical risks into clear, auditable business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Business Administration and Management General, MBA Business Administration and Management General at St. John Fisher UniversityBS Information Technology, BS Information Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Github contributions (5)
cockroachdb/docs
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
CockroachDB user documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 21 PRs, 22 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Deron primarily contributed to the user interface of the documentation website. They added targets to newsletter signup forms, updated navigation elements, and implemented features to enhance the display of code snippets, including copy-to-clipboard functionality. They also styled and modified the layout and typography of the website, including header, footer and other elements.
user-documentationcockroachdbdatabasearangodb
divisionof/docs
Mar 2017 - Oct 2019
CockroachDB tech docs
Contributions:68 pushes, 42 branches in 2 years 6 months
cockroachdbtech-docsnodejsdatabasemongodb
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