Summary
Erik Johnson is a Senior Staff Engineer with 16 years of experience building backend infrastructure, API systems, and data replication pipelines for web and manufacturing platforms. He has led engineering teams and architected distributed test and production systems at companies ranging from startups to enterprise (Fusion-io, SanDisk, Western Digital), consistently driving efficiency gains through automation and modern tooling. Comfortable with Python, Django, gRPC, C/C++, PostgreSQL and Redis, he combines hands-on implementation with cross-functional coordination across manufacturing, firmware and cloud integrations. At MVP he progressed from senior engineer to Director of Engineering and back to a senior technical leadership role, underscoring a blend of people leadership and deep technical ownership. Based in Connecticut, he has a track record of shrinking project timelines (e.g., saving 6–7 months on NVMe test tooling) and simplifying complex workflows that span global teams and multi-platform environments.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Weber State University