Eric Johnson
Director Of Field Services, Public Sector at GitHub
Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Johnson is a seasoned technology leader with 17 years of experience who currently directs Field Services for GitHub’s Public Sector, blending hands-on engineering with strategic client-facing leadership. He progressed through solutions engineering roles into management and now leads programs that help government and nonprofit teams adopt and scale developer workflows. A longtime advocate for using code to empower social-good organizations, he still contributes to backend open-source work—recently updating label synchronization and Octokit integrations in a GitHub settings app. Based in Alexandria, Virginia, he runs a creative technology consultancy, bringing an entrepreneurial lens to enterprise-scale problems and a knack for translating complex technical change into practical adoption.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
bot-application10
apim10
octokit10
javascript10
api10
github-app10
probot10
jes9
jtest9
jestjs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
repository-settings/app
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
Pull Requests for GitHub repository settings
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the repository, focusing on label management within the GitHub settings application. They updated existing code to align with changes in the Octokit labels API, refactoring label-related methods and tests. These changes involved modifying label synchronization logic, implementing updates for label renaming, and ensuring the integration of Octokit updates.
probot-apppull-requestssettingssettings-repository
elstudio/WPDx-categories
May 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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