Jeromy Johnson
General Partner at Mana Industries
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeromy Johnson is a seasoned software engineer and current General Partner based in Seattle with 14 years of experience building and hardening distributed systems and peer-to-peer networking stacks. He spent nearly a decade at Protocol Labs contributing core networking, libp2p, and IPFS tooling—work that touches widely used open-source projects in the decentralized web space. Comfortable across back-end, devops and full-stack roles, he’s implemented transport and pubsub improvements, DHT features, and IPFS API commands while also contributing frontend and CLI pieces for emerging social protocols like Bluesky. Jeromy’s engineering style favors pragmatic fixes and interoperability (he frequently updates dependencies, refactors APIs, and adds real-world examples), which makes him effective at turning flaky integrations into reliable components. As a technical advisor and operator he blends hands-on coding with product-facing infrastructure work, and an unusual thread through his contributions is a knack for improving low-level networking robustness that other maintainers often rely on.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Washington State University
Github Skills (61)
json10
back-end-development10
sdl10
peer-to-peer10
testing10
net10
command-line-interface10
sockaddr10
test-framework10
ipfs10
distributed-systems10
peer-connection10
dladdr10
networking10
datastore10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
whyrusleeping/gx
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
A package management tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:282 commits, 59 PRs, 260 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeromy refactored the project to utilize the spf13/cobra library, indicating a focus on command-line interface (CLI) development and possibly refactoring efforts. Code changes were primarily within a testing framework which suggests the user's involvement in testing and potentially automating builds or releases. Further commits involved the addition of a "language" flag and file organization, indicating a role in expanding the project's functionality.
management-toolpackage-managementpackage-manager
libp2p/go-libp2p-kad-dht
Jul 2014 - Jul 2021
A Kademlia DHT implementation on go-libp2p
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 361 commits, 69 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeromy primarily worked on implementing and modifying core components of a Kademlia DHT implementation in Go. Their commits focused on extending the functionality of the DHT, including adding support for various message types such as ADD_PROVIDER, GET_PROVIDERS, and FIND_NODE, and integrating a datastore for local data storage. They also worked on implementing provider functionality and improved the robustness of the query and stream messaging to other peers.
golangipfskademlia-dhtdhtgo-libp2p
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