Johan Mcgwire
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Coinbase
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Mcgwire is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure, currently scaling SRE efforts at Coinbase. A Computer Science and Engineering graduate from The Ohio State University with a networking and security specialization, he previously designed Battelle’s Apple ecosystem from the ground up and helped shape long-term IT strategy. His career spans hands-on macOS engineering, systems leadership at universities and defense contractors, and progressive SRE roles at Coinbase where he rose through engineering ranks. Johan also contributes to open-source Go tooling—improving Slack API client reliability—which reflects his attention to robust error handling and test-driven improvements. He combines operator mindsets with architecture-level thinking to balance day-to-day reliability with multi-year technical direction.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
golang10
error-handling10
go10
slack-api10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
slack-go/slack
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Slack API in Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 7 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Johan primarily worked on implementing and refining the Go-based Slack API client. Their contributions focused on refactoring the `GetConversationInfo` function to accept a struct input, improving error handling, and incorporating built-in Go error packages. They also addressed code formatting issues using `gofmt` and added tests to ensure the correct functionality.
golangslackapislack-apigo
Yohan460/autopkg-recipes
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:83 commits, 77 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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