Jennifer Johnson
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Storj
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJennifer Johnson is a Senior Software Engineering Manager based in Atlanta with 11 years of experience building and leading teams focused on distributed systems and back-end infrastructure. At Storj she progressed from engineer to senior manager, contributing core networking work—implementing a Kademlia routing table and on-disk integration—for the notable open-source decentralized cloud storage project. She blends hands-on coding (protobufs, connection handling, node queries) with people leadership and mentoring, having taught bootcamp cohorts and served as Developer in Residence. With a foundation in mathematics from the University of Michigan and roots in data-driven research and analytics, she brings a rigorous, test-oriented approach to scalable, privacy-focused systems. Notably, her background spans both product-driven startups and research labs, enabling her to translate complex distributed protocols into production-ready services.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
16 Week Immersive Bootcamp, Full Stack Web Development and Computer Science, 16 Week Immersive Bootcamp, Full Stack Web Development and Computer Science at DigitalCraftsBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at University of MichiganSummer Institute for Training in Biostatistics, Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English
Github Skills (8)
data-storage10
distributed-systems10
distributed-file-system10
go10
protobuffer9
protobuf9
object-storage8
testing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
storj/storj
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Ongoing Storj v3 development. Decentralized cloud object storage that is affordable, easy to use, private, and secure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 106 commits, 258 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jennifer primarily focused on developing the Kademlia routing table, a core component for distributed storage. Their work included implementing the Kademlia routing table, on-disk routing table integration, and connection success/failure handling within the routing table. Furthermore, the user implemented the node package query method. The user's contributions involved protobuf updates and the testing of Kademlia features.
golangsecureaffordabledistributed-storageongoing
hksix/Dasher-BackendProject
Aug 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:74 commits, 19 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 month
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