Eric Johnson
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Johnson is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with seven years of experience building cloud-native systems, developer tooling, and observability pipelines for large enterprises like Microsoft and Optum. He brings a rare mechanical-engineering background to software problems, pairing deep curiosity about systems with hands-on expertise in Azure, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, and React/TypeScript. At Microsoft he worked on build and metadata infrastructure for the Windows App SDK, improving pipeline compliance and versioning, and at Optum he architected AKS deployments, mutual-TLS certificate storage, and custom auditing into Elasticsearch. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and DevOps, he also mentors engineers through code review and feature design while driving innersource practices. Off the keyboard he restores espresso machines, a hobby that reflects his attention to detail and affinity for repairing complex, real-world systems. Based in Minneapolis, he combines production-grade delivery with a practical, multidisciplinary approach to engineering.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (8)
windows10
windows-app-sdk10
powershell10
build-automation10
csharp9
dotnet-core9
yaml9
cpp8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Aug 2021 - Sep 2022
The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.
Role in this project:
Back-end & Build Engineer
Back-end & Build EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 8 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric focused on modifying the build process and adding required copyright headers to several files. Their contributions involved fixing dependencies in build pipelines, adding copyright verifications, and modifying build scripts to ensure compliance. Furthermore, the user updated copyright header strings to adhere to the CELA guidance and included the addition of product version information to the WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll. This work primarily affects the build infrastructure and the project's metadata.
desktop-appswindows-10windows-11windows-app-sdkwindows-app
microsoft/devhomegithubextension
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Dev Home GitHub Extension
Contributions:58 reviews, 226 PRs, 181 pushes in 1 year 4 months
dev-home
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