Summary
Johanna Walter is a Senior DNS Engineer with 12 years of experience building and operating resilient network and infrastructure services, now focused on DNS at DigitalOcean. Her background spans core resolver platforms, SRE and DevOps roles across startups and scale-ups, where she’s combined network engineering, systems administration, and software to drive low-latency, highly available systems. Known as a dependable mentor and collaborator, she prioritizes clear explanations, actionable feedback, and being a safety net for teammates. Early career work managing global IPv4/IPv6 backbones and public tools at Hurricane Electric underpins her deep operational instincts and scripting-first approach. Based in Livermore, CA, she brings quiet empathy and long-term impact thinking to every engineering problem she tackles.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Sciences, Computer Sciences at Ohlone College
Irvington High School
English