Jeffrey Johnson
Director Distinguished Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton
Long Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeffrey Johnson is a Director and Distinguished Engineer with 15+ years leading system-of-systems engineering, integration, and capture for complex national security space and missile programs. He has driven multi-hundred-million-dollar programs and portfolios—chief engineering $630M programs, program-managed a $531M GSIS contract, and directed a $230M/year, 600+ person space mission integration business supporting USSF, USSPACECOM, and MDA. An electrical engineer by training who progressed into systems engineering, program capture, and business leadership, he’s delivered capabilities from GPS and SATCOM to missile defense, hypersonics, and space C2. Jeffrey blends hands-on technical chops (early avionics, GNC, and backend contributions to open geospatial tooling) with proven capture and proposal leadership across 40+ wins, making him as comfortable in the lab as the briefing room. He pairs formal executive and public management education with a practical talent for integrating people, processes, and technology to build high-performing teams and resilient systems. Outside work he’s an avid outdoorsman and lifelong learner whose curiosity—from attempting seven languages to reading widely—fuels pragmatic innovation.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of California, IrvineUniversity of California, San DiegoUniversity of California, Los AngelesKellogg School of Management
English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
python10
django10
git9
documentation8
postgresql8
geospatial7
data-infrastructure7
spatial-data7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
GeoNode/geonode
Jun 2011 - Aug 2017
GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:235 commits, 141 PRs, 153 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily worked on backend-related tasks, including removing and moving sitemap functionality to the production documentation. They also merged branches, which involved changes in test files within the maps application. Furthermore, the user added notes regarding sitemaps to the production deployment documentation and removed the NAVBAR dict from settings.
pythondjangosharingfacilitatesgis
GFDRR/mentoring-guide
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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