Garth Johnson
Vice President at Cascade STEAM
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGarth Johnson is a seasoned DevOps and cloud engineering leader with over two decades of diverse technical and leadership experience spanning Microsoft, DARPA, IBM, startups, and the US Army. He specializes in secure, containerized solutions built with Django, Python, Docker, and AWS, and has operationalized distributed systems using Portainer for management and CI/CD. As Vice President at Cascade STEAM and long-time educator and community organizer in Bellingham, he blends technical delivery with curriculum development and outreach to underserved learners. His background uniquely combines battlefield systems strategy and psychiatric nursing from military service with hands-on software and network engineering, giving him a pragmatic, user-centered approach to reliability and security. Known for building mentorship programs and maker-space initiatives, he actively fosters practical learning through IoT, electronics, and classroom instruction.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Highschool, Graduate, Highschool at Auburn Adventist AcademyGraduate, graduate, Graduate, graduate at Mt Baker High SchoolAssociates (incomplete), Computer Technology, Associates (incomplete), Computer Technology at Skagit Valley Community College
German
Stackoverflow
353reputation
56kreached
8answers
2questions
Github Skills (71)
minecraft9
mcfunction9
voxel-engine8
bungeecord8
crossword8
lua7
mineflayer7
minetest7
plugin7
voxel7
bukkit7
docker-image7
portal7
discord-bot7
spigot7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
growlf/docker-apt-cacher-ng
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
growlf/toolbox
Nov 2023 - Nov 2024
Containerized tools for on the go troubleshooting and developing
Contributions:3 releases, 98 reviews, 142 PRs in 1 year
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