Grier Johnson
Technical Advisor at Threaded
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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SeniorGrier Johnson is a seasoned infrastructure and platform engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale systems across companies like LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Square, Marqeta, and Threaded. He has deep expertise in production engineering, SRE practices, and tooling—authoring libraries, automation, and architecture documentation in Python, Ruby, Java and Go to improve operability at scale. As a manager and technical lead he guided cross-team policy, incident remediation, and migrations of thousands of servers, and later focused on skunkworks projects delivering fast, pragmatic solutions. Now serving as a Technical Advisor and retired from day-to-day industry work, he channels his time into faith-based service while still offering strategic technical guidance. Based in Boise, Idaho, he blends veteran operational judgement with a history of building reliable automation and tooling that quietly keep large services running.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (60)
docker10
zeromq10
python10
configuration-management10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
iot10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
saltstack10
infrastructure-as-code10
salt10
remote-execution10
event-stream10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ytoolshed/multipkg
Nov 2011 - Jan 2016
Automation for package builds
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
buildsautomation
grierj/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Nov 2024
Contributions:29 pushes in 9 years 11 months
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