Don Johnson
Lead Associate
Fowlerville, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDon Johnson is a pragmatic software engineer and technical lead with 12 years of professional experience specializing in geospatial applications, high-performance computing, and systems automation. He currently leads redevelopment of a mission-critical Map Catalog for the Defense Logistics Agency, migrating legacy Java/JavaFX code to a modern C#/XAML stack with the ESRI ArcGIS SDK for .NET. His career spans cloud-native microservices, AWS infrastructure and automation, robotics integrations at Amazon Robotics, and low-level C/C++ performance tooling—demonstrating fluency across full-stack, embedded, and ops concerns. Don combines hands-on coding with project management and ITIL discipline, is security-clearance eligible, and has a track record of shipping software used by thousands in defense and research settings. An often-overlooked strength is his long history of mentoring and training—whether onboarding teams for contract takeovers or teaching Linux and data management to scientific users—bringing both technical depth and people-first leadership to complex programs.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Wayne State UniversityCertificate Teaching, Certificate Teaching at University of MichiganBachelors Mathematics, Bachelors Mathematics at Saginaw Valley State UniversityMaster Certificate Applied Project Management, Master Certificate Applied Project Management at Villanova University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
defaults6
netbeans6
java6
Github contributions (5)
kodosaru/cs585
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:122 commits in 3 months
kodosaru/nss
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 7 months
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