Douglas Johnston
Software Developer at Self-employed
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDouglas Johnston is a software developer with 8 years of experience who thrives at the intersection of engineering and liberal-arts style problem solving, breaking complex systems into understandable parts and recombining them creatively. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he has built AI-driven object recognition platforms at Pacific Computer Vision Ventures while also maintaining a steady freelance practice that demonstrates quick uptake of new technologies and delivery of production features. His background includes IoT data pipelines on Azure, ETL work, and maintaining research-grade systems for UCSF, showing comfort across cloud, data, and domain-specific applications. Douglas has experience helping startups establish pipelines as well as stepping into long-lived open-source projects, indicating both foundational engineering and maintenance strengths. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern and a strong liberal-arts BA, a combination that fuels both technical rigor and adaptable problem framing. An often-overlooked asset is his continuity across roles—from contracting to startups—making him effective at improving legacy codebases while launching new capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Transportation, Master of Science (MS), Transportation at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (BA), Integal Liberal Arts Program, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Integal Liberal Arts Program at St. Mary's College of CaliforniaMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Northeastern University - Seattle
Github Skills (4)
azure6
microsoft5
django5
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
DouglasAndrJohnston/RunPunyMammal
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
musIndex/mouseinventory
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:104 commits, 65 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
djangomiceinstitutions
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