Ian Johnson
Member Of Technical Staff at Latent Interfaces LLC
Suwanee, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolIan Johnson is a versatile software engineer and data alchemist with 16 years of experience building realtime systems, data pipelines, and interactive visualizations. Currently leading engineering at Orbital and running Latent Interfaces, he blends full-stack development with research-driven interfaces to help scientists and organizations see data from new perspectives. His open-source contributions span both backend realtime engines (Sharedb, Racer) and front-end/VR frameworks (A-Frame, Derby), reflecting deep expertise in synchronization, SVG/DOM manipulation, and embedding user-provided canvases. Comfortable moving between prototyping at Google and production AI work at Stability AI, he focuses on data fidelity, consistency, and practical tooling that surfaces insights rather than just dashboards. Colloquially a "pixel flipper, data sifter," he pairs curiosity-driven exploration with rigorous engineering to turn messy data into actionable understanding.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MA Scientific Computing, MA Scientific Computing at Florida State University
Chinese, Dutch
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Github Skills (22)
operational-transformation10
javascript10
back-end-development10
virtual-reality10
regular-expression10
dom-manipulation10
svg10
front-end-development10
webvr10
operational-transform10
html10
transform10
aframe10
nodejs10
metadata-management10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
derbyjs/derby
Nov 2012 - May 2015
MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 11 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ian's contributions focused on enhancing SVG handling within the Derby.js framework, specifically targeting the `lib/Dom.js` and `lib/View.js` files. They implemented functions for appending and inserting SVG fragments, including handling DOM ranges within the SVG context. They also integrated these SVG manipulation methods with existing HTML manipulation functions (`setHtml`, `setAppend`, `setInsert`) to ensure consistent behavior. The user's work extended to server-side rendering and style reloading improvements.
realtimebrowsersnode-jsjavascriptframework
derbyjs/racer
Nov 2012 - Mar 2015
Realtime model synchronization engine for Node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on improving the Racer project's backend functionality. They addressed bugs related to regular expressions used in path matching and component integration. Additionally, the user exposed the request object on the server model and fixed related issues within the session store. Their contributions also included enhancements in refList operations and minor code cleanups.
realtimesynchronizationnode-jsjavascriptnodejs
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