Dorian Johnson
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDorian Johnson is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building product and engineering organizations in the Bay Area. He was an early hire at Heap who rose to Head of Product Engineering and Head of Engineering, and later founded Stemma—raising Sequoia-backed seed capital and exiting to Teradata. He combines hands-on full-stack development (notably contributing to the Amundsen open-source metadata platform across frontend, backend, and developer workflow improvements) with strategic leadership in hiring and scaling teams. Based in San Francisco with a Computer Engineering honors degree from UT Austin, Dorian blends startup grit with a strong track record of shipping developer-focused tools and driving successful acquisitions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Honors, BS Computer Engineering Honors at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
python10
testing10
typescript10
amd10
webpack10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
storybook9
build-time9
dependency-management9
buildx9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsendatabuilder
Aug 2020 - May 2021
Data ingestion library for Amundsen to build graph and search index
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 12 commits, 28 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dorian primarily focused on refactoring the codebase to remove Python 2 support and migrating to Python 3. This included removing dependencies, updating build configurations, and modifying code to be compatible with Python 3. The user also addressed testing and CI/CD configurations to align with the changes. Furthermore, the commits show significant updates to the project's dependencies and build processes.
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amundsen-io/amundsen
Aug 2020 - Jun 2021
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 62 reviews, 60 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dorian focused on improving the development workflow by implementing static CSS and JS filenames in the development environment. They also removed Python 2 support by removing related code and updating the project version. Furthermore, they added BigQuery authentication mocks for testing, and integrated Storybook for component development and documentation. Finally, they replaced all instances of "Lyft" with "Amundsen" in the codebase.
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