Jen Johnston
Program Manager, Privacy Review Operations
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Johnston is a program manager with 11 years of experience driving privacy, community operations, and cross-functional process improvements at Meta, where she currently leads Privacy Review Operations for Horizon. She combines operational rigor—reducing backlogs, formalizing escalation and recruitment workflows, and prioritizing reviewer capacity across hundreds of requests—with a knack for influencing product investments and communication standards across large orgs. Her earlier career in transfer-pricing and valuation at KPMG gives her strong analytical and policy-first instincts that inform risk-aware program design. An active contributor to open-source developer tooling, she has hands-on experience improving IDE UI and backend database migration tooling, reflecting a rare blend of product, program, and engineering fluency. Based in Austin, she’s known for turning ambiguous, high-risk launches into repeatable, well-documented operations while keeping a user-centered focus.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Centennial High SchoolB.S., Economics, Economics/Mathematics, B.S., Economics, Economics/Mathematics at Furman University
Github Skills (29)
atom-editor10
application-framework10
javascript10
postgresql10
app-framework10
schema-design10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
sql10
database-design10
db-schema10
database-schema10
web-framework10
schema10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/nuclide
May 2015 - Nov 2017
An open IDE for web and native mobile development, built on top of Atom
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 3 comments, 11 issues in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jen contributed to the development of the Nuclide IDE, making significant changes to the file tree and UI components. Their work included refactoring the tree component for better performance and functionality, adding features like a loading spinner, and enhancing the user interface. They also focused on improving the overall user experience by addressing issues with the file tree's context menu and automatic file selection.
mobile-developmentatomideon-top
digitallyinduced/ihp
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
🔥 The fastest way to build type safe web apps. IHP is a new batteries-included web framework optimized for longterm productivity and programmer happiness
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Jen primarily focused on enhancing the IHP framework's database migration capabilities. They implemented features to handle default value changes, including adding, removing, and modifying default values for database columns. The user also contributed to the schema designer, enabling the parsing, compiling, and handling of "SET DEFAULT" and "DROP DEFAULT" statements. These contributions involved modifications to database schema parsing, compilation, and code generation, improving the framework's functionality related to database interactions.
batteriesfastesthaskelljavascripttype-safe
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