Summary
Eddie Johnston is a software engineering consultant in Ireland with 13 years of full-stack experience and a PhD in Machine Learning, blending academic rigour with product-focused execution. He has repeatedly taken early-stage products to scale, from joining Reforge as its second engineer to leading frontend and AI features that drove growth and monetization. Recent work centers on AI-native analytics and LLM-driven authoring and agentic pipelines that unify qualitative feedback with telemetry across tools like GitHub, Jira, Linear, and Amplitude. He also led frontend architecture for an AI meeting assistant and built reliable UI systems for real-time transcription and summarization. Comfortable across Rails, React, Python and Go, Eddie pairs UX sensitivity from a user-centered design background with deep ML knowledge to ship practical, insight-driven features. An understated strength is his track record of turning research-grade ML thinking into maintainable product infrastructure that accelerates decision-making.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence), PhD, Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) at University College Dublin